1st Edition

Photography and Resistance Securing the Evidence in Nazi-Occupied Europe

By Janina Struk Copyright 2025
238 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 68 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Photography and Resistance tells the stories of the people who resisted fascism in Europe by taking or securing photographs. It complements Janina Struk's ground-breaking 2004 book Photographing the Holocaust, which has become a standard text on images of the Holocaust. Now she focuses on images taken at enormous risk by those resisting the Nazis, whether political activists or volunteers... Read more

Introduction

1. ‘Jews, Write and Record!’

2. Deadly refuge: the camps in France.

3. ‘Spanish war photographer reporter’.

4. The Underground State: Poland’s Resistance Network.

5. Unlikely heroes: The Warsaw Swedes.

6. The Łódż Ghetto photographers

7. The Auschwitz-Birkenau underground.

8. A legacy of resistance.

Biography

Janina Struk is a freelance documentary photographer, writer and lecturer. She is the author of the acclaimed book, Photographing the Holocaust: Interpretations of the Evidence (2004), which presents a history and critique of images taken during the Holocaust, and Private Pictures: Soldiers’ Inside View of War (2011), a thought-provoking perspective of soldiers’ pictures that span the wars of the past hundred years.