Heydecker, Joe (1916-97), German writer, photographer, and anti-Nazi who, as a wartime conscript, using a 35 mm Kine-Exakta, took over 1, 000 private photographs of military life in west and east. But most notable were his illicit images of the Warsaw Ghetto, made in February 1941, which revealed the dreadful conditions there. Later, his wife and friends helped to conceal them. Heydecker settled in Brazil in 1960 and exhibited the Warsaw photographs for the first time in São Paulo in 1981.
— Robin Lenman
Bibliography
- Heydecker, J., Das Warschauer Ghetto (1986)
