Pencil portrait of a concentration camp inmate drawn by a fellow inmate
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Pencil portrait of a concentration camp inmate drawn by a fellow inmate
Stanislaw (Stanley) Cioth was born on March 15, 1905, in Warsaw, Poland. His parents were Walerian and Zuzanna Honorata Konarzewska and the family was Catholic. Stanislaw worked as a civil engineering technician. He was married to Wanda Bierman, born on April 1, 1907, by the 1930s and they had a son, born in 1935. In July 2, 1941, he was arrested in Krakow and sent to Roznow. He was given the prisoner number 129993 and transferred to several other concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen, where he worked as an engineering technician. By February 10, 1945, he was in Gros Rosen and then was sent to Natzweiler-Struthof on March 9, 1945. He was liberated in Ostrach-Hohenzollern on April 22, 1945. The family immigrated to the United States in 1951, sailing from Southampton, England, on the Queen Mary and arriving in New York on February 22. Stanislaw died on August 26, 1972, in Cook County, Illinois, at the age of 66. Wanda died on February 3, 1998, at the age of 90.
Pencil portrait of a concentration camp inmate drawn by a fellow inmate