Der Fotograf von Auschwitz

The harrowing document of a witness. When Wilhelm Brasse (1917-2012) was taken to the main camp of Auschwitz at the age of 22, he had no idea that as a trained photographer he would become a chronicler of horror. His task was to photograph the concentration camp inmates—people who would soon be killed in the gas chambers. Individuals who were exploited by Josef Mengele for "medical research" and whose faces were marked by the terror of death. Had he refused to do the work, it would have been a death sentence for him. When Brasse was ordered to burn all the photos in 1945, he resisted in order to bear witness to the unimaginable horror. Reiner Engelmann met Wilhelm Brasse and recounts his life for young readers. A shocking document - against forgetting. With original photos from the Auschwitz Museum.