Korespondent Julien Bryan

November 14, 2015 8:05 AM

A Polish student of mine tells me they all see this documentary about photographer Julien Bryan in high school. He was an American who was in Warsaw at the beginning of the war. The four-part documentary (which includes his film Siege) is available on YouTube, dubbed into English.

Parts 1 2 3 and 4

posted by Rash (1 comment total)

Thanks for posting this. I had never heard of Julien Bryan before, but am very glad I do now. I especially appreciate that in 1958 he partnered with a Warsaw daily newspaper to find the individuals and families he had photographed during the war.

Online gallery from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum:

When Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Bryan risked his life to record the ferocious siege of Warsaw, “People might not believe my story if I told it in words when I returned to America. Everyone would believe my pictures.”

posted by spamandkimchi at 12:59 PM on November 14, 2015 [1 favorite]