oh ffs what a nasty dishonest and gross way to “frame” that…
Just googled " famous artists dead in holocaust" and literally copied the first wave of results. The thing is you can do this for literally any type of important or valued skill people can have and find a similar list.
|Eugen Burg|1871–1944|Died at an unknown concentration camp|
|Ernst Arndt|1861-1942/3|Murdered in the gas chamber at Treblinka concentration camp|
|Maria Bard|1900–1944|Suicide in Berlin for “political reasons”|
|Lea Deutsch|1927–1943|Heart failure en route to the Auschwitz concentration camp|
Poking around I found this biography on a piece of Nazi Propaganda: Rudolf Breslauer (1903-1944) was a photographer and lithographer by trade, educated at the Academy for Art Photography in Germany. He was married to Bella Weihsmann and had three children: Stephan, Mischa, and Ursula. They fled Leipzig and settled in the Netherlands in 1938. In the summer of 1940, non-Dutch Jews were forced to leave Leiden because the city was near the sea. The Breslauers moved to a boarding house in Alphen aan de Rijn and left for Utrecht shortly thereafter. On February 11, 1942, they were sent to Westerbork, where Rudolf Breslauer was ordered to make passport photos of incoming camp prisoners and film daily life in Westerbork. In the spring of 1944, the camp commander commissioned Breslauer to make what would later be known as the Westerbork-film. In September 1944, Breslauer and his family were deported to Theresienstadt with other privileged prisoners and subsequently deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Only Ursula survived the camp.
So… this guy was soooooo useful to them that they decided to give him a break from the psychological torture of photographing waves of new victims then they made propaganda from his work and then they killed him and his entire family… and that’s what being skilled and useful got.
