Wacław Czarnecki
Ilustracja
Born(1902-08-02)2 August 1902
Warsaw, Poland
Died16 May 1990(1990-05-16) (aged 87)
Warsaw, Poland
CitizenshipPolish
Occupationjournalist
Signature
Czarnecki (3rd from the left on the window side) at a meeting of former Polish Buchenwald CC prisoners, fot. Kazimierz Nowicki

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. He is buried at the Służew Old Cemetery, left side, 2nd plot, 5th row, grave no 10.

Books

  • Czarnecki, Wacław; Kuliński, Włodzimierz (1966). Wyzwolenie Buchenwaldu 11 IV 1945 (The Liberation of Buchenwald on April, 11 1945). Warsaw: ZBoWiD. Zarząd Okręgu Warszawskiego. Komisja Historyczna i Propagandowa Klubu Buchenwald-Dora. p. 15.
  • Czarnecki, Wacław; Zonik, Zygmunt (1969). Walczący obóz Buchenwald (Buchenwald the Fighting Camp). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. pp. XIV, 525.
  • Czarnecki, Wacław; Zonik, Zygmunt (1969). Kryptonim Dora (Codeword Dora). Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza. p. 339.

Notes

  1. ↑ Such a day, 16 May 1990, in the entry "Wacław Czarnecki syn Józefa i Julii" in the search engine of the page "www.straty.pl".(pol.)
  2. ↑ "Księga pamięci". 27 April 2018.(pol.) The date 17 May 1990 on this page is not correct. On 2 January 2022 the Memorial Book (Polish: Księga pamięci) that was at this link is no longer there
  3. ↑ "Individual Files (male) – Concentration Camp Buchenwald: Kazimierz Nowicki". Arolsen Archives. Retrieved 1 August 2019.


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