The Holocaust is considered one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the modern world. The genocide of European Jews by the Nazis still sends chills down the spine of many people and especially those whose ancestors are among the 6 million slaughtered. For those who were lucky enough to survive the Holocaust, this is the time of their lives that they will never end. Many of these survivors from Germany, Israel and Austria were photographed by Konrad Rufus Müller. As DW reports, the renowned photographer is now donating these 41 old photographs to the Jewish Museum Berlin. Everyone who has been photographed by Mueller has a unique story to tell.
Reportedly, survivor Rachel Osschitzky remembers being rescued by a Schutzstaffelman, who intercepted her on her way to the gas chamber of the Auschwitz concentration camp and sent her back. Gabby, an older inmate, advised him to claim he was over the age of 18 as younger prisoners were taken to the gas chambers. He also had a doctor who cleared him for factory employment, allowing him to escape from Auschwitz and a Czech man who prevented him from boarding a Russian truck after the war.
The vehicle must have brought him to Siberia, as he later found out. Ochitzky, 94, is one of 25 Holocaust survivors who were photographed and interviewed by photographer Konrad Rufus Müller and Austrian journalist Alexandra Föderl-Schmid. Förderl-Schmid was able to contact Holocaust survivors in Germany, Austria and Israel, which led to Müller interviews with photographs donated to the museum.
Museum director Hetty Berg said in a press release that Müller has sought to capture the life experiences of those depicted through the hands and faces of survivors, leading to a dense collection. He expressed happiness over the photographs coming to his museum.
Mueller was inspired to create the picture project after reading a story about a Holocaust survivor by journalist Alexandra Föderl-Schmid. After that, he sent her an email, and the two of them planned to go on a trip to meet the other survivors. As a result, in 2019, the book “Unfaasable Wonder” (The Incredible Miracle) was released. “Alexandra spent an hour talking to each person, and during that time I found a location where I would photograph the person or persons,” Muller told DW.
Konrad Rufus Müller made famous in Germany by photographing German chancellors such as Konrad Adenauer, Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl. They used Roliflex cameras without additional lighting and still work in the same way today.
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