Book Talk

27 Feb | Photography and Resistance: Securing the Evidence in Nazi-Occupied Europe

• Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025
• Time: 7pm for 7.30pm

Intelligence gathering and armed resistance were two ways of continuing the fight against Nazi forces across occupied Europe. Another, less familiar form of resistance was to take photographs that documented the Nazi regime and its atrocities. The stories of the people who took such photographs, including political activists, underground networks, prisoners in concentration camps and professional photographers, are narrated in a remarkable book entitled Photography and Resistance: Securing the Evidence in Nazi-Occupied Europe.

Many images in this book, taken clandestinely, have not previously been published. The text reveals the means photographers employed, and the heroic motivation that compelled them to risk their lives to compile such vital evidence. The significance of these images is finally being recognized and assessed.

Janina Struk's ground-breaking first book, Photographing the Holocaust was published in 2004 and became a leading text on images of the Holocaust.

This event will he held in the Salonik on the 2nd floor. Copies of Photography and Resistance: Securing the Evidence in Nazi-Occupied Europe will be available to purchase.