![]() ![]() After the war, US soldiers gave him chocolate wrapped in pages from American comics, and Saudek used these comics to learn the English language. Jan Saudek escaped the torments and horrors of this period by fleeing into debauched erotic fantasies, which he would later use as the basis of his photographic art. According to Saudek’s own account, he and his twin brother Karel were imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele carried out experiments on them. The father survived, but the sons were murdered. His parents lived in a so-called ‘intermarriage’ and so the family were subjected to severe persecution – his father Gustav, a Jewish banker, was deported in 1945 to the concentration camp ‘Ghetto Theresienstadt’ together with six sons. ![]() Jan Saudek found his way to photography through detention and torture ![]()
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