Bernard Gotfryd
Biography
Bernard Gotfryd, photographer and storyteller, born 1924 in Radom/Poland, died 2016 in New York. As a youth he did courier services for the Polish resistance against the German occupation, he was a prisoner in various concentration camps until the liberation in May 1945. In 1947 he emigrated to the USA. He worked for more than 30 years as a photo reporter for the US magazine Newsweek. His rich photographic life's work is archived at the renowned New York Historical Society.
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Anton the pigeon fancier
Bernard Gotfryd's stories, each self-contained, tell of his time as a youthful courier in the Polish resistance against the Nazi occupation, of his surviving stages in various concentration camps, and of the difficult years as adisplaced person to the first years in the new American home, which were also not exactly easy.
Translated from English by Michael Lehmann
