Anna Maria Steinbach,(1934–1944). The photograph shows the girl, born in 1934 in Buchten, municipality of Susteren, Netherlands, on the day of her deportation from the Westerbork camp to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (16 May 1944).
The photograph is a snapshot from a film that the Jewish filmmaker Rudolf Breslauer (1903–1944/45), also a prisoner in the Westerbork camp, had to shoot on the orders of the camp commandant. For many years, this child was considered a Jewish girl and her image became an icon of the Holocaust. It was not until 1995, after lengthy research, that the journalist Aad Wagenaar found out that she was a Sintezza. Anna Maria Steinbach, who was known in the community under the Romanes name Settela, was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau, as was her family. Rudolf Breslauer also did not survive the deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
