Rudolf Breslauer
Rudolf Werner Breslauer (born July 4, 1903 in Leipzig ; † February 28, 1945 in Central Europe; according to other sources, in Auschwitz in 1944 ) was a German cameraman of Jewish origin.
Life
Rudolf Breslauer fled with his family from the National Socialist German Reich to the Netherlands , where he was arrested. In January 1942 he and his family were deported to the Westerbork transit camp . There he took identification photos of concentration camp inmates at the instigation of the SS . At the behest of SS camp commandant Gemmeker , he shot films of prisoners in the concentration camp assembly camp.
Rudolf Breslauer, his wife, two sons and a daughter were later deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in 1944 . There his wife and sons were murdered in the gas chamber . Rudolf Breslauer died in February in an unknown location in Central Europe, his daughter survived the Holocaust.
film records
In 2007, Berlin director Harun Farocki assembled a 40-minute film about Westerbork from Breslauer's material shot in 1944.
Hanukkah in Westerbork
Train to Auschwitz
Train direction sign
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Bibliographical information
- Rudolf Breslauer (historical recordings, 1944), Harun Farocki (director, 2007): Aufschub - Documentary scenes from a transit camp for Jews . Essay film, South Korea / Germany. 40 min. ( The station 3sat 2011 about the film .)
Web links
- Film Rudolf Breslauer (Dutch language)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names , Yad Vashem , Retrieved February 10, 2013.
- ↑ Information about Rudolf Breslauer on the auschwitz.nl page ; Retrieved February 10, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Breslauer, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breslauer, Rudolf Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 1945 |
| Place of death | Central Europe |