Our customer Robin has a very striking story behind this photograph he took during a visit to Auschwitz about 10 years ago and asked us to restore….
Here’s his story:
“The photograph was taken approximately 10 years in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Camp (just outside of Krakow).
The image is of Kazimierz Budzinski – who entered the camp on 24.04.1942 and was executed on 27.05.1942.
There was a galleried corridor in the camp adorned with images of inmates – his image struck me hard and I stopped for what seemed some time and examined it…examined his expression and his eyes….there was a look of abandonment and fear. I took the photo and kept it. I took this photograph because I wanted to make sure he and his tragic plight would never be forgotten.
Years later I asked Photographs Forever to preserve it and print it for me – which they did brilliantly and it now adorns a space on the wall in my kitchen. Friends et al who visit ask who he is – and by asking – its ‘job done’ because he has not been forgotten.
I subsequently had his number tattooed on my left forearm – exactly as it appeared on his left breast side and it reminds me of him as well as what we are capable, as humans, of doing. People ask about the tattoo and its significance – and again it serves its purpose well – he has not been forgotten.”
Hopefully by adding this to our blog it will be seen by many more people and will continue to reinforce Robin’s dedication to preserving the memory of this man who represents a huge number of people who suffered a similar fate during the Second World War.
