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Photography of the Holocaust is a topic of interest to scholars of the Holocaust. Such studies are often situated in the academic fields related to visual culture and visual sociology studies. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Photographs created during the Holocaust also raise questions in terms of ethics related to their creation and later reuse. [3 ...
The Montreal Holocaust Museum (French: Musée de l'Holocauste Montréal) is a museum located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is dedicated to educating people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference. Through the museum, its commemorative ...
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) [3] is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland. The site includes the main concentration camp at Auschwitz I and the remains of the concentration and extermination camp at ...
Photos and videos depict a world erased, of family gatherings, weddings, religious ceremonies, bustling shops. Artifacts and art And, it tells of survival, with simple articles such as a blanket.
Wilhelm Brasse (3 December 1917 – 23 October 2012) was a Polish professional photographer and a prisoner in Auschwitz during World War II. He became known as the "famous photographer of Auschwitz concentration camp." His life and work were the subject of the 2005 Polish television documentary film The Portraitist (Portrecista), which first ...
The Höcker Album (or Hoecker Album) is a collection of photographs believed to have been collected by Karl-Friedrich Höcker, an officer in the SS during the Nazi regime in Germany. It contains over one hundred images of the lives and living conditions of the officers and administrators who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex.
Top: Kanada warehouses, c. May 1944. The Kanada warehouses, also known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. The buildings were used to store the stolen belongings of prisoners, mostly Jews who had been murdered in the gas chambers on ...
George Brady (Holocaust survivor) George Jiri Brady[1] OOnt (born Jiří Brady; 9 February 1928 – 11 January 2019) was a Holocaust survivor of both Theresienstadt (Terezín) and Auschwitz (Oświęcim, Poland), who became a businessman in Canada and was awarded the Order of Ontario in 2008.