Photographer of Auschwitz

In 1940, a young Pole named Wilhelm Brasse became a prisoner of Auschwitz concentration camp under the number 3444. He turned out to be one of the few who managed to survive in this death camp.

His profession as a photographer and knowledge of the German language helped him – he was assigned to work in the camp’s identification bureau. Before Brasse’s lens passed those doomed to death in the gas chambers, deportees, victims of Mengele's medical experiments, Jews, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, Catholic priests...

More than fifty thousand photographs became unique evidence of monstrous crimes. Wilhelm managed to preserve them so that the whole world would learn about Nazi atrocities.

But he never managed to work as a photographer again.