Nationality German Website Biographic details | Known for Photography | |
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Full Name Werner Rudolf Breslauer Died 28 February 1945, Auschwitz concentration camp, Oświęcim, Poland | ||
Werner Rudolf Breslauer (4 July 1903 – 28 February 1945) was a German photographer of Jewish descent.
Leipzig, the Netherlands, Westerbork, Auschwitz
Breslauer was born in Leipzig, where he was trained as a photographer and as a printer. In 1938 he flew to the Netherlands, where he lived and worked in Leiden, Alphen and Utrecht. 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 ordered Breslauer to make photographs and films of life in Westerbork. Breslauer and his family were transported to Auschwitz in the autumn of 1944. His wife and two sons were immediately killed, Rudolf Preslauer died a few months later. Their daughter Ursula survived the war.
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