Maria Orlicka was the daughter of a poor Polish family. She was born in Jaworzno on the 2nd of July 1928. Maria took care of the house while her parents worked
Maria Orlicka was the daughter of a poor Polish family. She was born in Jaworzno on the 2nd of July 1928. Maria took care of the house while her parents worked. In 1939, the Germans invaded Poland and Jaworzno was taken over by German troops, more particularly so because it was in an area that was formerly part of German territory.
In 1942, Maria was arrested at the age of 14 for using black-market ration cards to get food, accusing her of selling it off for profiting. She was deported to Auschwitz and from the 2nd of April 1943, she was a prisoner in Auschwitz under the prisoner number 39849. She was kept in Bunker 11 where prisoners were chosen to be executed and murdered by firing squad at the infamous "death wall". However, rather than executing her, she was deported to a slave labour camp for children in Łódź ghetto, also called Litzmannstadt by the Germans. Her parents were told she'd been executed, resulting in her father's death from a heart attack. 16 year old Maria was released from the camp on the 9th of November 1944, emaciated from scurvy, typhus and malnutrition. She returned to Jaworzno
Remember Maria Orlicka. May her memory be a blessing❤
*photos colourised by me❤
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