Wilhelm Brasse (3 December 1917 – 23 October 2012) was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II.
On August 31, 1940, 22 year-old. Wilhelm Brasse arrived in Auschwitz camp with about 400 other Polish prisoners. He was admitted as prisoner 3444. After ...
Wilhelm Brasse
Polish photographer
Wilhelm Brasse was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp." Wikipedia
Born: December 3, 1917, Żywiec, Poland
Died: October 23, 2012 (age 94 years), Żywiec, Poland
Movies: The Portraitist
Known for: Photography done under duress as inmate of Auschwitz concentration camp
Photographs taken in the camp and kept in the Archives of the Auschwitz Birkenau State Museum show both male and female prisoners of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Wilhelm Brasse was born in 1917 in Zywiec of an Austrian father and a Polish mother. Before the war Brasse worked in a photographic studio in Katowice. For ...
Oct 24, 2012 · Mr. Brasse was a photographer and prisoner at Auschwitz who was haunted by the pictures he was forced to take.
Nov 25, 2013 · Wilhelm Brasse is the creator of more than 50,000 pictures of prisoners of the Nazi German concentration camp Auschwitz. Anna Dobrowolska's ...
Jun 21, 2024 · Published: Kraków : MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków ; Brighton ; Portland : Sussex Academic Press, 2012. Locale: Poland
In March 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is the book with edited tales of the ...
Based on the powerful true story of Auschwitz prisoner number 3444 Wilhelm Brasse, whose photographs helped to expose the atrocities of the Holocaust.
Wilhelm Brasse's cinematographic testimony, recorded by Irek Dobrowolski in The. Portraitist [Portrecista] (2005), brings into focus the Auschwitz ...