Polish Photographers - Wilhelm Brasse, Ryszard Wasko, Stanis Aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Zdzis Aw Beksi Ski, Mariusz Adamski, Eugeniusz Lokajski, Mariusz Zaruski, Michal Martychowiec, List of Polish Photographers, Andrzej Sawa, Karol Piegza (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Wilhelm Brasse, Ryszard Wasko, Stanis aw Ignacy Witkiewicz, Zdzis aw Beksi ski, Mariusz Adamski, Eugeniusz Lokajski, Mariusz Zaruski, Michal Martychowiec, List of Polish photographers, Andrzej Sawa, Karol Piegza, Andrzej Jerzy Lech, Andrzej Majewski, Mariusz Hermanowicz, Kazimierz Nowak, Chris Niedenthal, Iwo Zaniewski, Micha Ca a, Casimir Zagourski, Wojciech Rychlik, Stasys Eidrigevi ius, Krzysztof Olszewski, Maciej Dakowicz, Jan Bu hak, Jeanloup Sieff, Maksymilian Fajans, Zbigniew D ubak, W odzimierz Puchalski, Jorge Lewinski, Tomasz Sobecki, Boles aw Matuszewski, Wojciech Zamecznik, Sylwester Braun, Jerzy Tomaszewski, Miros aw Araszewski, Marcin Niewalda, Pawe Bielec, Henryk Ross. Excerpt: Wilhelm Brasse (born 3 December 1917) is a Polish man who became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz"; his life and work are the subject of the 2005 Polish television documentary film The Portraitist (Potrecista), which first aired in the "Proud to Present" series on the Polish TVP1 on January 1, 2006. After the 1939 German invasion of Poland and occupation of ywiec, Brasse's home town in southern Poland, he was interrogated by the Schutzstaffel (SS), refused to swear allegiance to Hitler, and was imprisoned for three months. After his release, still refusing to capitulate, he fled but was captured at the Polish-Hungarian border and deported to KL Auschwitz-Birkenau as prisoner number 3444. Trained before the beginning of World War II as a portrait photographer at his aunt's studio, he was ordered by his SS supervisors to photograph "prisoners' work, criminal medical experiments, portraits of the prisoners for the files." Brasse has estimated that he took 40,000 to 50,000 "identity pictures" from 1940 until 1945, before being moved to another concentration camp in Austria, where he was liberated by...