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The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 /

The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 /
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01181632 940.53 CRI
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ISBN 9780857527462 (paperback)
Shelf Location 940.53 CRI
Author Crippa, Luca: 1964-,
Uniform Title Fotografo di Auschwitz.
Title The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 / Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis ; translated from the Italian by Jennifer Higgins.
Publisher London : Doubleday, 2021.
Doubleday, 2021.
©2020.
text.
still image.
unmediated.
volume.
Summary 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 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.
Subject added entry -- Relator term Brasse, Wilhelm 1917-2012.
Brasse, Wilhelm 1917-2012.
Brasse, Wilhelm 1917-2012.
Subject added entry Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
Subject Biographies
Concentration camp inmates
Portrait photographers
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Biography
Portrait photographers -- Poland -- Biography
Poland
Additional author Onnis, Maurizio:
Higgins, Jennifer:
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