Rudolf Breslauer

Breslauer was born in Leipzig, where he was trained as a photographer and as a printer. In 1938, as the Nazis began the extermination of Jews, he fled to the Netherlands, where he lived and worked in Leiden, Alphen, and Utrecht.^[1] 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.^[2] Breslauer and his family were transported to Auschwitz in the autumn of 1944.^[3] His wife and two sons were immediately killed, Rudolf Breslauer died a few months later.^{[citation needed]} Their daughter Ursula survived the war.