In Memory of Children in Auschwitz

Czesława Kwoka-prisoner 26947 in Auschwitz German Camp-(August 15,1928 - March 12, 1943) was born in Wolka Zlojecka, a small village in Poland. She was deported to KL Auschwitz German Camp(1940-1945) from Zamość as prisoner number 26947, on December 13, 1942. She died at the age of 14 on March 12, 1943.

Her mother Katarzyna Kwoka was also in the same transport (number 26946). On February 18, 1943, her death was registered at KL Auschwitz.
Both Kwoka and her mother were Roman Catholic. Polish family.

Czesława Kwoka appeared in an article of the National Geographic Magazine in 1995.

Murder of Zamość children in Auschwitz German Camp.
At Auschwitz German concentration camp 200 to 300 Polish children from the Zamość area were murdered by Germans by phenol injections. The child was placed on a stool, occasionally blindfolded with a piece of a towel. The person performing the execution then placed one of his hands on the back of the child's neck and another behind the shoulder blade. As the child's chest was thrust out a long needle was injected into the chest with a toxic dose of phenol. The children usually died in minutes. A witness described the process as deadly efficient:

As a rule not even a moan would be heard. And they did not wait until the doomed person really died. During his agony, he was taken from both sides under the armpits and thrown into a pile of corpses in another room.... And the next victim took his place on the stool

To trick the children that were to be murdered into obedience Germans promised them that they will work at a brickyard. However another group of children, young boys by the age of 8 to 12, managed to warn their fellow child inmates by calling for help when they were being killed by Germans:

"Mamo! Mamo!" ("Mother! Mother!"), the dying screams of the youngsters, were heard by several inmates and made an indelible haunting impression on them.

Some of the children were also murdered in Auschwitz gas chambers.

Before the German invaded Poland, Hitler announced, "The destruction of Poland is our primary task." He also commanded, "Kill without pity or mercy all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space we need." Hitler's head of secret police, Heinrich Himmler, promised that "all Poles will disappear from the world."
POLAND'S HOLOCAUST: 6 MILLION CITIZENS DEAD (3 MILLION CHRISTIANS and 3 MILLION JEWS)
Poland lost six million citizens or about one-fifth of its population: three million of the dead were Polish Christians, predominantly Catholic, and the other three million were Polish Jews.

CZESŁAWA KWOKA - POLE, 14 YEARS OLD.
IN AUSCHWITZ SINCE 13 DECEMBER 1942, DIED 12 MARCH 1943.

CZESŁAWA KWOKA- POLKA, 14 LAT.
W KL AUSCHWITZ OD 13.12.1942 R., ZGINĘŁA 12.03.1943 R.

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