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Holocaust Auction June 2023
Lot 554:
2 Private Taken Photos in 1944 of Polish Photographer Adolf Forbert in Liberated KL Majdanek. Taken from a photo album. We can see Adolf Forbert with the camera. Adolf Forbert (born October 21, 1911 in Warsaw, died June 23, 1992 in Warsaw) was a Polish photographer, cinematographer of feature and documentary films, and documentary film director. He was born in Warsaw in a Jewish family. He was the son of Leon Forbert, a photographer, film producer and designer of film sets, and the brother of WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Forbert, a cinematographer. In 1929–1931 he worked in Australia as an assistant newsreel operator. In 1931, he founded the Sektor film laboratory in Warsaw, of which he was the manager until 1939. After the outbreak of World War II, he fled to the Soviet occupation zone. In the years 1939-1941 he was the cameraman of the Soviet newsreel. In 1941 he was taken prisoner by the Germans, from which he managed to escape. In 1943, together with his brother WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw, he joined the Film Corps of Zygmunt Berling’s army. In 1945 he recorded the liberation of Auschwitz and Krakow.
Size: 12x9cm
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