VOICED: Picturing Auschwitz

Wilhelm Brasse, a prisoner and photographer at Auschwitz during WWII, documented the lives and deaths of fellow inmates, including the infamous medical experiments by SS officer Joseph Mengele. Despite orders to destroy photographic evidence, Brasse managed to save thousands of images, many of which are now preserved at the Auschwitz Museum. After the war, Brasse struggled to return to photography, haunted by memories of the Jewish children he once photographed.

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