Wacław Czarnecki
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wacław Czarnecki | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born | 2 August 1902 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 16 May 1990 (aged 87) Warsaw, Poland |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Signature | |
 | |
Wacław Leon Czarnecki (2 August 1902 – 16[1][2] May 1990) a Polish journalist, who before World War II was a member of the Polish Socialist Party; after World War II he was a member of the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy (ZBoWiD) and the Society of Polish Journalists (Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich).
He was a prisoner of the Majdanek and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps, an active member of secret communist and anti-fascist organisations in Buchenwald; he co-authored (with Zygmunt Zonik) monographs about the Buchenwald concentration camp (inspired by his Buchenwald friend Kazimierz Nowicki[3]) and its sub-camp Mittelbau-Dora.
Wacław Czarnecki died in Warsaw.
