The Holocaust was undoubtedly one of the most horrible acts of cruelty and evil the world has ever seen.
As time forces it to fade into distant memory, it's important that we continue to find ways to remember it and ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.
Brazilian artist Marina Amaral has taken an old photo showing a 14-year-old girl in Auschwitz concentration camp and added colour to it, to bring into focus the horror and human cost of the Holocaust.
It took her months to put together on Photoshop and required her to spend a long time researching to get it just right, but the result is arresting and heartbreaking.
The young girl in the photos with her head shaven and her lips bleeding is Czesława Kwoka. She was taken out of her home in eastern Poland along with her mother by the Nazis and arrived via train at the concentration camp on 13 December 1942, alongside 318 other women.
Sixty-seven days later she was dead, murdered a Phenol injection directly into her heart because she was deemed to be racially unsuitable for 'Germanisation' - a term used by the Nazis for the process to enforce their language, culture, and ideologies onto the people of Eastern Europe.
Kwoka was one of around 230,000 children in this fashion at Auschwitz. Overall 1,300,000 people were brought there between 1940 and 1945. Very few ever left.
On the chest of her uniform, it can be seen that once she arrived at the camp she was allocated the prisoner number 26947. During the process of colourising the photo, Amaral also discovered a red triangle with a 'P' in it. This identifies her as a political prisoner.
According to the man who took the picture, Wilhelm Brasse, himself a survivor of the camp, she had just been on the receiving end of a beating from the guards, explaining why she has a bleeding lip.
When asked why she decided to undertake the project, Amaral said: "When we see the photos in black and white, we get the feeling that those events happened only in the history books,
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"According to the photographer's account, Czesława had just been beaten by a guard before the photo was taken.
"By restoring the colours on her face, I was able to show the colours of the blood and the bruises, which made everything even more real.
She added: "These people were human beings who had dreams, ambitions, fears, friends, family, and had all this taken from them,
"Unfortunately, Czesława was just one among millions of others, but the expression on her face - so much fear, and at the same time so much courage, will stay with me forever."
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