[5][6][7][8] Czesława Kwoka was born in Wólka Złojecka, a small village in Poland, to Roman Catholic parents: mother Katarzyna (née Matwiejczuk), and father Paweł.

[9] Along with her mother (prisoner number 26946), Kwoka (prisoner number 26947) was deported from her village, and transported from a resettlement camp at Zamość, General Government, to Auschwitz, on 13 December 1942, during Operation Zamość which was initiated in November that year to create Lebensraum for Germans in eastern Europe.

[11] Most of these children "arrived in the camp along with their families as part of the various operations that the Nazis carried out against whole ethnic or social groups".

[1][5][6][7] Some photographs credited to Brasse, including the "identity picture" with 3 poses of Kwoka, are in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum's memorial to prisoners, part of a permanent indoor exhibit called Block no.

The photo mural including Kwoka's "identity pictures" ("identification photographs" or "mug shots") displayed on a wall in the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum's permanent indoor exhibition The Life of the Prisoners in Block no.

[4] "Bring[ing] Czeslawa's image and voice into our lives", Theresa Edwards (verse) and Lori Schreiner (art) created Painting Czesława Kwoka, a collaborative work of mixed media inspired by Brasse's photographs, as a commemoration of child victims of the Holocaust.