title: Rudolf Breslauer
text: # Rudolf Breslauer
  
  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 fled 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 [de] 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 Breslauer died a few months later. Their daughter Ursula survived the war.
  
  ## Photographs, stills and a film from Westerbork, by Breslauer
  
  The German camp commander, Albert Gemmeker ordered Breslauer to document everyday life in the Westerbork transit camp. In 2017, these films were submitted by the Netherlands and included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
  
  * Settela Steinbach May 19th 1944
  * Christmas 1942 in Westerbork (from left to right) Albert Konrad Gemmeker [de], Hassel, Aus der Fünten and Scheltnes of Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co.
  * Hanukkah in Westerbork
  * Transport to Auschwitz (Westerbork movie [nl])
  * Train: No carriage ..... Train must be closed when returned to Westerbork
  