Jana Ecksteinova, a 9-year-old Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Oświęcim, Poland

Jana Ecksteinova, a 9-year-old Jewish girl from Czechoslovakia. Brought to Auschwitz from the Theresienstadt ghetto in October 1944. She was diagnosed as having second degree dystrophia alimentaris (alimentary dystrophia). Frame from the Soviet Liberation Chronicle film. Source: APMA-B

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