The Auschwitz photographer : the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls / Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis ; translated from Italian by Jennifer Higgins.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publisher: Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks, [2021]Description: xiv, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781728242200
- 1728242207
- 9781728244044
- 1728244048
- Fotografo di Auschwitz. English
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim
- Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012
- Photographers -- Poland -- Biography
- Nazi concentration camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Prisoners and prisons -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The Nazis asked him to swear allegiance to Hitler, betraying his country, his friends, and everything he believed in.
He refused.
Poland, 1939. Professional photographer Wilhelm Brasse is deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and finds himself in a deadly race to survive, assigned to work as the camp's intake photographer and take "identity pictures" of prisoners as they arrive by the trainload. Brasse soon discovers his photography skills are in demand from Nazi guards as well, who ask him to take personal portraits for them to send to their families and girlfriends. Behind the camera, Brasse is safe from the terrible fate that so many of his fellow prisoners meet. But over the course of five years, the horrifying scenes his lens capture, including inhumane medical "experiments" led by Josef Mengele, change Brasse forever.
Based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse, The Auschwitz Photographer is a stark black-and-white reminder of the horrors of the Holocaust. This gripping work of World War II narrative nonfiction takes readers behind the barbed wire fences of the world's most feared concentration camp, bringing Brasse's story to life as he clicks the shutter button thousands of times before ultimately joining the Resistance, defying the Nazis, and defiantly setting down his camera for good.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320).
Originally published as Il fotografo di Auschwitz by Edizioni Piemme S.p.a., 2013.
Prologue: Auschwitz: an afternoon at the identification service -- Auschwitz, 1941: hiding to survive -- Auschwitz, 1942-43: serving the master -- Auschwitz, 1944-45: rebellion and testimony -- Epilogue -- A true story -- A note on the text.
"Wilhelm Brasse: "I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times..." When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, photographer Wilhelm Brasse was sent to Auschwitz. His inability to condone the Third Reich and swear allegiance to Hitler landed him at one of the deadliest concentration camps of WWII. There, he was forced to record the camp's atrocities. From 1940-1945, Brasse took more than 50,000 photos of the nightmare that surrounded him. Brasse's role earned him Nazi favor, but he couldn't bear to hide behind his camera. He resisted, faking documents for prisoners and smuggling photos to the outside world. When the war ended, he refused orders to destroy his records. Many of the people that appeared in Brasse's photos perished, but he wouldn't discard the memories of who they were. A hauntingly true story of a man who made sure the world couldn't turn a blind eye to the Holocaust, The Auschwitz Photographer honors Wilhelm Brasse, the photographer who immortalized the horrific atrocities we should, and must, never forget"-- Provided by publisher.
Text in English, translated from the Italian.