The Portraitist DVD

"The Portraitist” tells the story of Wilhelm Brasse, former prisoner of Auschwitz, who was forced to work as a photographer in the camp and on the SS-men orders took hundreds of photographs for the camp records. Ryszard Horowitz writes: "As one of the youngest survivors of Auschwitz, I must admit 'The Portraitist' made a thundering impression on me. The juxtaposition of the film footage of victims with terror and hopelessness on their faces, interwoven with the emotionless arguments of the witness/author of the Auschwitz photographs creates an atmosphere worthy of Dante's Inferno. I have read most of the literature and have seen lots of films dealing with the Holocaust, yet I consider 'The Portraitist' to be one of the most outstanding and moving works on the subject of the Shoah."