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Bernhard Walter
In Occupation of Poland (1939–1945), German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust, the ''Politische Abteilung Erkennungsdienst'' ("Political Department Identification Service") in the Auschwitz concentration camp was a ''kommando'' of Schutzstaffel, SS officers and prisoners who photographed camp events, visiting dignitaries, and building works on behalf of the camp's commandant, Rudolf Höss. The ''Erkennungsdienst'' also took photographs of inmates, including gassings, experiments, escape attempts, suicides, and portraits of registered prisoners (those not immediately murdered in the gas chambers) when they first arrived at the camp. Led by its director, SS-''Hauptscharführer'' Bernhard Walter, and deputy director, SS-''Unterscharführer'' Ernst Hofmann, the ''Erkennungsdienst'' took the 193 photographs that came to be known as the Auschwitz Album, which included images of Holocaust in Hungary, Hungarian Jews in the summer of 1944 just before they were gasse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Czesława Kwoka
Czesława Kwoka (15 August 1928 – 12 March 1943) was a Polish Catholic girl who was murdered at the age of 14 in Auschwitz. One of the thousands of minor child and teen victims of German World War II war crimes against ethnic Poles in German-occupied Poland, she is among those memorialized in an Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibit, "Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners". Photographs of Kwoka and others, taken by the "famous photographer of Auschwitz", Wilhelm Brasse, between 1940 and 1945, are displayed in the Museum's photographic memorial. Brasse discusses several of the photographs in '' The Portraitist'', a 2005 television documentary about him. Early life Czesława Kwoka was born in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in Poland, to Roman Catholic parents: mother Katarzyna (née Matwiejczuk), and father Paweł. Deportation to Auschwitz Along with her mother (prisoner number 26946), Kwoka (prisoner number 26947) was deported from her village, and tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
