Beautiful Portraits Of Auschwitz Survivors

Eva Fahidi, 90, holds a picture of her family, who were all killed in the concentration camp during World War II, as she poses for a portrait in Budapest Jan. 12, 2015. Fahidi was 18 in 1944 when she and her family were moved from Debrecen to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Jacek Nadolny, 77, who was registered with camp number 192685, holds up a wartime photo of his family, as he poses for a portrait in Warsaw Jan. 7, 2015. Nadolny was 7 during the Warsaw Uprising, when he was sent with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train. In January 1945 the family was moved to a labor camp in Berlin.

Jadwiga Bogucka (maiden name Regulska), 89, registered with camp number 86356, holds a picture of herself from 1944 in Warsaw Jan. 12, 2015.

Lajos Erdelyi, 87, holds a drawing made by a campmate as he poses for a portrait in Budapest on Jan. 13, 2015. Erdelyi was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944 and was later moved to another camp. When he was freed he weighed under 30 kilograms but tried to walk home. He collapsed and was taken to a hospital by a farmer.

Barbara Doniecka, 80, who was registered with camp number 86341, holds up a wartime photo of herself as she poses for a photograph in Warsaw Jan. 12, 2015. Doniecka was 12 years old during the Warsaw Uprising when she was sent to Pruszkow camp. She was then sent by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Laszlo Bernath, 87, holds up a picture of his family, who were all killed in the concentration camp during World War II, in Budapest, Jan. 12, 2015. Bernath credits his father being a practical man with his survival of Auschwitz. He was 15 when they were taken, but his father told him to lie about his age so that they would not be separated. Even while in the camp, Bernath had no idea about the gas chambers.

Imre Varsanyi, 86, holds up a photo of fellow survivors during World War II, as he poses for a portrait in Budapest Jan. 12, 2015. Varsanyi was 14 years old when he and his family were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was the only member of his family to survive. After the war Varsanyi did not talk about Auschwitz for 60 years because he felt ashamed of having survived.

Halina Brzozowska, 82, who was registered with camp number 86356, holds a picture of herself which was taken during the war, as she poses for a portrait in Warsaw Jan. 12, 2015. Brzozowska was 12 years old during the Warsaw Uprising when her family were sent to a camp in Pruszkow. She and her 6-year-old sister were then moved by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Brzozowska said that it was hard to say what had happened to them, that they were taken from their homes, family, and lost their childhood.

Janos Forgacs, 87, holds a document as he poses for a portrait in Budapest Jan. 12, 2015. Forgacs recalls that he was in a group transported to a camp in a cattle wagon, with the windows sealed with barbed wire. An military officer told them to hand over their belongings, telling them they would not need them anymore.

Maria Stroinska, 82, holds a family photo taken before the war, as she poses for a portrait in Warsaw Jan. 12, 2015. Stroinska was 12 years old during the Warsaw Uprising when she and her sister were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow before she was moved alone by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Henryk Duszyk, 80, who was registered with camp number 192692, poses for a portrait in Warsaw Jan. 12, 2015. Duszyk was 10 years old during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. He was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau with his father, brother, and stepmother. The family were separated and Duszyk only saw his father once more before he was killed at the camp. Duszyk, his brother, and his stepmother were kept at Auschwitz-Birkenau until the camp was liberated.

Marian Majerowicz, 88, who was registered with camp number 157715, poses for a portrait in Warsaw Jan. 13, 2015. Originally from Myszkow, Majerowicz was 17 when he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At the camp he was briefly reunited with his father, who told him that his mother and younger brother were both killed in the gas chambers. Majerowicz's father didn't survive the war.

Erzsebet Brodt, 89, holds a picture of her family, who were killed in the concentration camp during World War II, as she poses for a portrait in Budapest Jan. 12, 2015. Brodt was 17 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau along with her family. Remembering the journey to the camp, she said that those who were "sick or about to give birth were forced out and put into one wagon. When the wagon was opened in Auschwitz we saw that everyone was dead inside."

Stefan Sot, 83, who was registered with camp number 192705, holds a picture of himself taken during the war, in Warsaw Jan. 5, 2015. Sot was 13 years old during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, when he was sent from his home to a camp in Pruszkow prior to being transported by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. He was later moved to a labor subcamp, where he worked in a kitchen for S.S. officers. After the war he worked as a typesetter at a printing house.

Danuta Bogdaniuk-Bogucka (maiden name Kaminska), 80, poses for a portrait in Warsaw Jan. 5, 2015. Bogdaniuk-Bogucka was 10 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp with her mother. Bogdaniuk-Bogucka was part of Josef Mengele's experiments when she was in Auschwitz. After the war she met her mother again and they discovered they had both been at Ravensbruck camp at the same time, but they had not realized this.

Jerzy Ulatowski, 83, who was registered with camp number 192823, poses for a photo in Warsaw Jan. 12, 2015. Ulatowski was taken by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau when he was 13 years old. In January 1945 he managed to escape with his family, as there was a lack of power in the barbed wire surrounding the camp.