{"product_id":"the-auschwitz-photographer","title":"The Auschwitz Photographer - Paperback","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'I looked death in the eyes. I did it fifty thousand times...' Wilhelm Brasse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e_______________\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen 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 the 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEventually, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFor readers of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Librarian of Auschwitz \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, this extraordinary true story of horror, hope and courage lies at the very heart of the Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e_______________\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'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\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39371537743938,"sku":"","price":699.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0263\/4884\/7170\/products\/9780857527462.jpg?v=1626288714","url":"https:\/\/koolskoolbookstore.com\/products\/the-auschwitz-photographer","provider":"KoolSkool The Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}