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Polish Documentary Films (Study Guide): The Portraitist, Fotoamator, the Children of Leningradsky, the Sea, 89mm from Europe

Polish Documentary Films (Study Guide): The Portraitist, Fotoamator, the Children of Leningradsky, the Sea, 89mm from Europe


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This is nonfiction commentary. Chapters: The Portraitist, Fotoamator, the Children of Leningradsky, the Sea, 89mm From Europe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Portraitist is a 2005 Polish television documentary film about the life and work of Wilhelm Brasse, the famous "photographer of Auschwitz," made for TVP1, Poland, which first aired in its "Proud to Present" series on January 1, 2006. It also premiered at the Polish Film Festival, at the West London Synagogue, in London, on March 19, 2007. In August 1940, when he was 23, after fleeing the Nazi occupation of ywiec, his home town in southern Poland, Wilhelm Brasse 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 "what they told him to photograph: prisoners' work, criminal medical experiments, portraits of the prisoners for the files." Brasse has estimated that he took about 40,000 to 50,000 "identity pictures" from 1940 until 1945, before being forcibly moved to another concentration camp in Austria, where he was liberated by the American forces in May 1945. While all of Brasse's photographs are not extant, 40,000 that did survive are kept in archives, with some on display, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, and at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, and some of the Auschwitz-Birkinau State Museum archival photographs and related iconography are presented visually in the film, with narration through interviews with Brasse. Portrecista (The Portraitist) examines the life and work of Wilhe...http: //booksllc.net/?id=19140348


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158593385
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: The Portraitist, Fotoamator, the Children of Leningradsky, the Sea, 89mm from Europe
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1158593384
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 54 gr


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