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02615aam a2200373 i 4500 001 4A1503142DA911EDAAD1AEF657ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220906010025 008 201102s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2020416518 020 $a 0857527460 020 $a 9780857527462 020 $a 0857527169 020 $a 9780857527165 035 $a (OCoLC)1233300405 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d NZAUC $d OCLCO $d CDX $d OCLCO $d YDX $d DLC $d TLC $e rda $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h ita 100 1 $a Crippa, Luca, $d 1964-, $e author. 240 $a Fotografo di Auschwitz $l English $0 local)tlcaut9320298681752576. 245 14 $a The Auschwitz photographer : $b based on the true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner 3444 / $c Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis ; Translated from the Italian by Jennifer Higgins. 264 1 $a London : $b Doubleday, $c 2021. 300 $a xiii, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a 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. -- $c Source other than Library of Congress. 541 $d 20220106. 546 $a Translated from the Italian. 600 1 $a Brasse, Wilhelm $d 1917-2012. 610 2 $a Auschwitz (Concentration camp.) 650 $a Concentration camp inmates $z Poland $v Biography. 650 $a Portrait photographers $z Poland $v Biography. 700 $a Onnis, Maurizio, $d 1963-, $e author. 941 $a 1 952 $l DMPC403 $d 20220906012554.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4A1503142DA911EDAAD1AEF657ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search