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The woman in the photo, Danuta Danielsson (née Seń), was born in March 1947 in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland. She had three siblings. Danuta was Jewish. Her mother had survived a German concentration camp in Poland during The Holocaust, reportedly in Auschwitz or in Majdanek. She met Björn "Beson" Danielsson at a jazz festival in Poland in 1981.They married in November of the same year in Gorzów, and the couple moved to Sweden in October 1982.
Danielsson chose to remain anonymous after the event, allegedly due to fears of criminal prosecution and Neo-Nazi reprisal. The initial press accounts about her life were often unreliable, and myths about her past accrued over the years as her name remained unknown to the public for nearly three decades. Although she was only 38 years old at the time of the event, Danielsson came to be seen in the public opinion as a personification of the tant ('old lady'), which in Swedish collective imagery symbolizes "mundane and unstated wisdom, civil courage and moral alignment". Danielsson had mental health issues, and she died three years after the event by suicide after jumping from Växjö's water tower in 1988.
The lady in the photograph was revealed to be Danielsson by the press in 2014, in the midst of debates over the installation of a statue as a public memorial of the confrontation. Her son condemned the idea and stated that Danielsson had never liked the photograph and regretted its fame. He also dispelled the rumours that she was herself a Jewish concentration camp survivor, or that she did not know what she was doing at the time of the event because of her mental health issues.
The man hit by Danielsson was identified as Seppo Seluska, a militant from the Nordic Realm Party later convicted for the torture and murder of a gay Jew.