Istvan Reiner Before He Was Sent To Auschwitz

 This colorized portrait shows a smiling Istvan Reiner, age 4, of Mikolsc, Hungary. The photo was taken in the Jewish ghetto before Istvan was shipped off to the Auschwitz concentration camp, as evidenced by the striped uniform that inmates, even children, were made to wear. The original photo is held by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where a caption explains Istvan's fate. He and his mother Livia

were deported to Auschwitz. Upon arrival other prisoners told Livia to give Istvan to his grandmother and to go through the selection alone. Livia told the SS men that she was four years younger than she really was and was selected for forced labor. She worked in a factory, was in the Allendorf labor camp and later sent on a forced march. She was liberated in either Bergen-Belsen or Mannheim. Istvan, then only four years old, was murdered together with his grandmother.