Sir John H. Noble
In Dresden, Sir John H. Noble’s life connects camera making with the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe. Born in Detroit in 1923, he arrived here with his father in 1938 to establish Kamera Werkstätten.
The factory became known for innovative camera designs before Soviet troops arrested both men in 1945. Noble then endured Vorkuta, a Soviet labour camp, until his release in 1955. Back in the United States, he published a prison memoir that sold more than one million copies. His efforts to rescue fellow prisoners brought a knighthood in 1979, and he returned to Dresden in 1990 seeking his family’s factory.
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