The Auschwitz photographer

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  1. liverpool annie

    liverpool annie New Member

    Has anybody seen this film at all ? wonder if it's still available to be seen anywhere ?

    A Polish photographer, who was ordered to take pictures of concentration camp inmates during the Second World War, will visit London for the first time this week to see a film of his work.

    Wilhelm Brasse was captured in the south of Poland whilst trying to escape the Nazis in order to join the Polish army. He was sent to Auschwitz in 1940 as a political prisoner and remained there until the end of the war.
    As a photographer, the SS ordered him to document the inmates and, the day before the camp was evacuated, he risked his life to save most of the 100,000 pictures he took. Among the images are some portraits of children experimented on by the notorious Dr Josef Mengele.

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