Tom Edwards
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27 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 17 Jan
Tom Edwards’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Remember, these were parts of the camp he wouldn't have seen.
So there are works of art that exist made by prisoners of concentration camps, but inevitably they show the huts and bunks and parts of the everyday fabric of the camp.
It was going in the next day is the extraordinary aspect to this, the fact that after his incredible survival, he wanted to go back again.
and to record and part of it I think is a compulsion, an artist's compulsion to record but really I think it's to do with a human response to it.
His survival as he's talked about in various interviews was very much down to keeping a strong sense of humanity and his humanity.
The Germans, the SS, they wanted to turn you into beasts, and once they'd done that and broken you, they knew they had you.
Brian was very conscious that he needed to keep his humanity, and what better expression of that than expressing himself through drawings, even at the moment when most of us would want to run and flee.
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