Crippa, Luca

The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444

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ISBN 13:: 9781529176384
author:: Crippa, Luca
format:: Paperback / softback
publisher:: Penguin (Transworld)
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2022
Pages:: 304
Dimensions:: 19.8 x 12.7 x 1.9 centimetres (0
Genre:: Biography, Historical, Biography,
Condition:: New
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Wilhelm Brasse, prisoner number 3444, was a trained portrait photographer who found himself in the midst of unimaginable horror when Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Ordered by the SS to record the inner workings of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Brasse reluctantly took identification photographs of prisoners as they entered, went on to capture the atrocities of Josef Mengele's medical experiments, and recorded executions. Between 1940 and 1945, Brasse took around 50,000 photographs of the atrocities around him, a testament to the unimaginable horrors he witnessed. However, as his conscience grew stronger, Brasse began to risk his life by joining the camp's Resistance movement, faking documents for prisoners, and trying to smuggle images to the outside world. When Soviet troops finally advanced on the camp, Brasse refused SS orders to destroy his photographs, saying "because the world must know". This powerful true story of hope and courage lies at the very centre of Holocaust history, shedding light on the human side of the victims and survivors.

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