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Rudolf Breslauer
Born
Werner Rudolf Breslauer

(1903-07-04)4 July 1903
Leipzig
Died28 February 1945(1945-02-28) (aged 41)
Auschwitz concentration camp
NationalityGerman
Known forPhotography
WebsiteBiographic details

Werner Rudolf Breslauer (4 July 1903 – 28 February 1945) was a German photographer of Jewish descent.

Leipzig, the Netherlands, Westerbork, Auschwitz

Rudolf Breslauer filming (1944)

Breslauer was born in Leipzig, where he was trained as a photographer and as a printer. In 1938, he fled to the Netherlands, where he lived and worked in Leiden, Alphen and Utrecht.[1] In 1942, Breslauer, his wife Bella Weissmann, sons Mischa and Stefan and daughter Ursula were imprisoned and deported to Westerbork transit camp. Camp commander Albert Konrad Gemmeker [de] ordered Breslauer to make photographs and films of life in Westerbork.[2] Breslauer and his family were transported to Auschwitz in the autumn of 1944.[3] His wife and two sons were immediately killed, Rudolf Breslauer died a few months later. Their daughter Ursula survived the war.

Photographs, stills and a film from Westerbork, by Breslauer

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References

  1. ^ Community Joods Monument
  2. ^ Website Auschwitz.nl
  3. ^ Biografisch Portaal
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