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Crippa, Luca, 1964-
Subjects
Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Portrait photographers -- Poland -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
Photographers -- Poland -- Biography.
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Crippa, Luca, 1964-
Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) -- Biography.
Portrait photographers -- Poland -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim.
Concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
Photographers -- Poland -- Biography.
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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.
by
Crippa, Luca, 1964-
Penguin Random House UK, 2021.
Call #:
940.5318092 B823c
Subjects
Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
--
Biography.
Portrait photographers
--
Poland
--
Biography.
World
War
,
1939-1945
--
Atrocities
--
Poland
--
Oświęcim
.
Concentration camp inmates
--
Poland
--
Oświęcim
--
Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (
1939-1945
)
--
Poland
.
Photographers
--
Poland
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780857527165
9781728244044 (hc : US ed.)
9781728242200 (trade pbk : US ed.)
Uniform title:
Fotografo di Auschwitz. English
Alternate title:
The Auschwitz photographer : the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls
Description:
xiii, 287 p., 16 unnumbered p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published as Il fotografo di Auschwitz by Edizioni Piemme S.p.a., 2013.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
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. For readers of The Librarian of Auschwitz and The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz, this powerful true story of hope and courage lies at the very centre of Holocaust history."--Publisher.
Other authors:
Onnis, Maurizio, 1963-
Higgins, Jennifer, 1978-
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