The Auschwitz Photographer
The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444
(Sprache: Englisch)
'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse
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When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He...
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When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He...
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'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse_______________
When Germany invaded Wilhelm Brasse's native Poland in 1939, he was asked to swear allegiance to Hitler and join the Wehrmacht. He refused. He was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp as political prisoner number 3444. A trained portrait photographer, he was ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the camp. He began by taking identification photographs of the prisoners as they entered the camp, went on to capture the criminal medical experiments of Josef Mengele, and also recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the horror around him. He took them because he had no choice.
Eventually, Brasse's conscience wouldn't allow him to hide behind his camera. First he risked his life by joining the camp's Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, trying to smuggle images to the outside world to reveal what was happening. Then, when Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp to liberate it, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs. 'Because the world must know,' he said.
For readers of The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz, this extraordinary true story of horror, hope and courage lies at the very heart of the Holocaust.
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'Brasse has left us with a powerful legacy in images. Because of them we can see the victims of the Holocaust as human and not statistics.' Fergal Keane
Autoren-Porträt von Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis
Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis
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- Autoren: Luca Crippa , Maurizio Onnis
- 2021, 304 Seiten, Maße: 14,5 x 22,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Doubleday
- ISBN-10: 0857527460
- ISBN-13: 9780857527462
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.04.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
The authors have woven a remarkable tale of survival against all the odds... They have done their research and created an enthralling book that, while telling an almost incredible tale, shows profound respect to the victims of one of history's darkest episodes. The Sydney Morning Herald
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