The Auschwitz photographer, the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls, Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis ; translated from the Italian by Jennifer Higgins
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The Auschwitz photographer, the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls, Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis ; translated from the Italian by Jennifer Higgins
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-320)
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The Auschwitz photographer
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Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis ; translated from the Italian by Jennifer Higgins
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the forgotten story of the WWII prisoner who documented thousands of lost souls
Summary
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
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- Biographies
- World War, 1939-1945 + Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim
- Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012
- Photographers -- Poland -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Prisoners and prisons -- Biography
- Internment camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography
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- Biographies
- World War, 1939-1945 + Atrocities -- Poland -- Oświęcim
- Brasse, Wilhelm, 1917-2012
- Photographers -- Poland -- Biography
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland
- Auschwitz (Concentration camp)
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poland -- Prisoners and prisons -- Biography
- Internment camp inmates -- Poland -- Oświęcim -- Biography
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