About Wacław Czarnecki
Lived 1902 – 1990 (aged 87). Wacław Czarnecki was a Polish journalist.
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 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 ) and its sub-camp Mittelbau-Dora.
Wacław Czarnecki died in Warsaw.
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Who was Wacław Czarnecki?
Polish journalist
When was Wacław Czarnecki born?
Wacław Czarnecki was born on 2 August 1902 in Warsaw.
When did Wacław Czarnecki die?
Wacław Czarnecki died on 17 May 1990 in Warsaw.
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Wacław Czarnecki was a journalist.
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Wacław Czarnecki was Polish.
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