The Auschwitz Photographer
The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls
Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2021]
Format: Book
Description: xiv, 334 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
In 1939, after Germany invaded Poland, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz to record the camp’s atrocities where he faked documents for prisoners and smuggled photos to the outside world, and, when the war ended, refused to destroy his records so we might never forget.
Subjects:
Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim.
Photographers -- Poland -- Biography.
Internment camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Prisoners and prisons -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012.
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim.
Photographers -- Poland -- Biography.
Internment camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Prisoners and prisons -- Biography.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland.
ISBN:
9781728244044
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Brasse, Wilhelm | Blythewood | Nonfiction | In |
Includes reading group guide.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320).