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Czeslawa Kwoka

 

Czeslawa Kwoka

Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

John Stuart Mill, 1867

 

 

Hattip to HappyAcres.  The story of the murder of Czeslawa Kwoka has been making the rounds of the internet.  Just one of the tens of millions of  victims of the attempt by Adolph Hitler seventy years ago to bring to reality his nightmarish vision of the future of humanity.

Czesława Kwoka, a 14-year-old Polish Catholic girl (prisoner number 26947) from the small village of Wólka Złojecka is photographed upon her arrival at Auschwitz concentration camp in December 1942. Wilhelm Brasse, an inmate who served as the camp identification photographer, recalled photographing Kwoka:

“She was so young and so terrified. The girl didn’t understand why she was there and she couldn’t understand what was being said to her.

So this woman Kapo took a stick and beat her about the face. This German woman was just taking out her anger on the girl. Such a beautiful young girl, so innocent. She cried but she could do nothing.

Before the photograph was taken, the girl dried her tears and the blood from the cut on her lip. To tell you the truth, I felt as if I was being hit myself but I couldn’t interfere. It would have been fatal for me. You could never say anything.”

Kwoka died in the camp in March of 1943.

 

Let Czeslawa’s memory remind us that evil is ever plentiful in this Vale of Tears and that it is the duty of all decent people to combat it.  When good people turn away and forsake this duty, the consequences to the innocent are often horrific.

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CrankyinAZ
CrankyinAZ
Tuesday, October 22, AD 2013 9:56am

Three months… So many thoughts… yet I am speechless.

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Tuesday, October 22, AD 2013 10:01am

[…] Place A Christian Way of Being Present in the Digital World – Michael J. Miller Forming No Opinion Empowers Bad Men – Donald R. McClarey JD, TACthlc 22 October: Sts. Nunilo and Alodia! Virgins and Martyrs […]

Nicholas Dyson
Nicholas Dyson
Tuesday, October 22, AD 2013 12:19pm

Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord and let perpetual light shine upon her.Amen

Paul W Primavera
Paul W Primavera
Tuesday, October 22, AD 2013 6:08pm

This is what Obama and the Democrats will do to Christians. It is what they are already doing to unborn babies. Adolf Hitler still lives. 🙁

philip
philip
Wednesday, October 23, AD 2013 3:02am

Auschwitz prisoner #17760 Pray for us!
Maximilian Maria Kolbe Saint of Auschwitz, patron of the pro-life movement Pray for us!

In the basement of Marytown, the National City of the Immaculate, a recreation of the death camp has been on display for over 23 years. One wall has photos of young prisoners not unlike Czeslawa’s.
The horrors that these innocents endured give us moments to examine our priorities, and recognize the great need to be active in our local Right to Life chapt.’s. Forty days for Life is still on. Please spend one hour in public prayer in front of a P.P. Do it for the sake of the children…please.

philip
philip
Wednesday, October 23, AD 2013 8:32am

Not to disrespect the thousands of prayers my parents prayed for my conversion, St. Kolbe is a key figure in my return to the Holy Sacraments.

Great presentation back in 09′.
The Saints are Alive! We must never forget to call on them. 🙂

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