The exhibition by guest curator Sake Elzinga about photographer and maker of the Westerbork film Rudolf Breslauer will soon be on display again in the Camp Westerbork Remembrance Center.
The memorial center focuses on the exhibition The photographer of Westerbork camp , which was on display for two months last year, is being revived. According to spokesperson Tessa Bouwman, the reason is the 80th anniversary of the film, which photographer Rudolf Werner Breslauer made on behalf of camp commander Albert Gemmeker.
The Jewish photographer was in the camp with his family when Gemmeker asked him to capture daily life. The Asser photographer Sake Elzinga delved into his history last year and discovered that Breslauer was also allowed to leave the camp to take photos in Assen, for example. Ultimately, the family was also deported to a concentration camp, where only one of his three children survived the war. Elzinga has now discovered that Breslauer’s two eldest children can also be seen in the Westerbork film.
House photographer
Elzinga was one of the guest curators of the temporary exhibition The Memory of Camp Westerbork , which lasted almost a year and a half. During the exhibition he also drew parallels with his own work; he has been the memorial center’s ‘house photographer’ for forty years.
The exhibition will return in a modified form on March 13. “The focus will be more on Breslauer’s life and family and less on Sake’s work,” says Bouwman. It does not happen often that the memorial center shows an exhibition again. “Have we run out of topics? No. We now go into more depth. And there was great interest in this exhibition. So we are meeting a need from the public.”
The photographer of Westerbork camp can be seen until the end of September.