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The Auschwitz Photographer - The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 (Hardcover)
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The Auschwitz Photographer - The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R533
Discovery Miles 5 330
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Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner Wilhelm
Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the
Holocaust. 'Horror in sharp focus... important, because the world
must know.' John Lewis-Stempel, Daily Express __________ 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. __________ 'A remarkable tale of survival against the
odds... an enthralling book.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'Brasse has
left us with a powerful legacy in images. Because of them we can
see the victims of the Holocaust as human and not statistics.'
Fergal Keane ***** Anything that helps to remind us of where hate
gets us is worth reading. ***** Harrowing but so perfectly told.
***** Life affirming in so many ways.
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