Hello everyone, the quick update we have gained 1,713 signatures. Please keep sharing with everyone you know at school jobs, etc.  Hi, thank you for signing my petition. We are one step closer to changing something that should never have happened in the first place, but since it did, we are closer to honor the people's memory of the ones that were lost. As you may not know, people take vacations to Auschwitz all the time rain sleet summer snow people go and a lot of the time the people that go to this place this horrific terrible, please don’t go to honor the memory of the lives lost but instead go to take a quick Instagram picture and pose inappropriately I don’t care about what they should be there to honor so this means a lot to me because you are willing to change something that has been going on since the museum first open So I like to say thank you again you’re making a difference

The person in the photo: Czesława Kwoka was born on August 15, 1928, in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in the Polish Zamość region that fell victim to Hitler’s Lebensraum (living space) – the ideological policy of territorial expansion into Eastern Europe. Czesława and her mother, Katarzyna, were Roman Catholics: a group reviled by the Nazi Party. The Nazis refused to tolerate any group or social gathering that was not controlled or thoroughly infiltrated by their governance. Catholics, under the sway of the Pope and their local clergy, were suspect: it was not possible, according to Nazi dogma, to give allegiance to both the Church and the Fatherland. Further, Jesus’ Semitic roots were reviled by the Nazis who, through the cracked lens of Social Darwinism, spewed hateful propaganda that declared the Jewish people to be the root of all of Germany’s social and economic problems. In Nazi Germany and occupied Europe, many Catholic clergymen and nuns were persecuted and sent to concentration camps. Similarly, many followers of Catholicism were arrested as political prisoners suspected of serving the interest of the Roman Catholic Church. During processing by KL Auschwitz’s Nazi SS administrators, Czesława and Katarzyna were assigned prisoner numbers 26947 and 26946, respectively. According to camp records, Katarzyna died on February 18, 1943. One month later, Czesława was murdered with a phenol injection to the heart at the age of 14.