Wilhelm Brasse. Photographer. 3444. Auschwitz 1940–1945

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Wilhelm Brasse. Photographer. 3444. Auschwitz 1940–1945. In March 2010 Maria Anna Potocka conducted an interview with Wilhelm Brasse. The outcome is the book with edited tales of the prisoner-cum-chief-photographer of Auschwitz, together with a film with fragments of the interview. There is an introduction by the historian Teresa Wontor-Cichy from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, the academic editor. The book is generously illustrated with photographs from Wilhelm Brasse’s own archives, as well as the Photographic Archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Yad Vashem.

Wilhelm Brasse was born in 1917 in Żywiec of an Austrian father and a Polish mother. Before the war he wor