Jan saudek photography6/23/2023 Although their mother and many other relatives died, both sons and father survived the war. Their father Gustav was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in February 1945. Jan and his brother Karel were sent to a children's concentration camp for Mischlinge (mixed-blood in German, as Nazis classified Jews as a race distinct from "Aryans"), located in Silesia near the present Polish-Czech border. Many of his Jewish relatives died in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during the war. During World War II and after the invasion of the German Nazis, both sides of his family were racially persecuted by the invaders. Their mother's family came to Prague from Bohemia, and their father from the city of Děčín in the northwest part of that area. Jan Saudek and his twin brother Karel (also known as Kája) were born to a Slavic (Czech) mother and Jewish father in Prague in 1935. A disintegrating wall and a window giving a glimpse into the backyard became the witnesses of his fantasies and collaborations with models of all different sizes and origins. He lived in poverty using the only room in his basement as his studio. I still dream of the day when I will take a photograph so beautiful that it can be called love.ĭuring his life in communist Czechoslovakia, Jan was labeled by the totalitarian regime as a pornographer.
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