Ceija Stojka (1933–2013) in her flat in Vienna, Austria, 1999. Ceija Stojka, a Lovara, grew up in a family that lived from trading horses. She was deported with her mother and siblings to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in 1943. Her father had already been deported to Dachau in 1941 and murdered in the Hartheim killing centre. Ceija Stojka survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps.
Since the publication of her first autobiographical book in 1988, she has been one of the most important voices of the survivors. From then on, she made a name for herself as an activist, artist and writer. In 2009, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture appointed Ceija Stojka as a professor.
The photo shows her prisoner number, which was tattooed on her left forearm in Auschwitz.
