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The Resource The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis

The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis

Label
The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse
Title
The Auschwitz photographer
Title remainder
based on the true story of prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse
Statement of responsibility
Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis
Creator
Contributor
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
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.00Eventually, 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
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
UKMGB
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Crippa, Luca
Dewey number
940.5318
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
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1963-
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Onnis, Maurizio
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  • Brasse, Wilhelm
  • Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
  • Concentration camp inmates
  • Portrait photographers
Label
The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000068786088
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
304 pages
Isbn
9780857527462
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (black and white)
System control number
(OCoLC)1233300405
Label
The Auschwitz photographer : based on the true story of prisoner 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • text
  • still image
Content type code
  • txt
  • sti
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Control code
000068786088
Dimensions
23 cm.
Extent
304 pages
Isbn
9780857527462
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (black and white)
System control number
(OCoLC)1233300405

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