John Paul Wronski photograph collection
Contains photographs taken in the Dachau concentration camp after the liberation in April 1945. Staff Sergeant John Paul Wronski (donor’s late husband), born on April 21, 1917 in Buffalo, NY, who served as a radio operator in 312th Air Fighter Control Squadron, under General Patton. Mr. Wronski wrote on the back of the photographs description of what he saw in the liberated camp. Mr. Wronski participated in D-Day crossing into Omaha Beach on June 6, 1944. Also includes a postcard with an image of propaganda painting by Nazi painter Adolf Reich (1887-1963) depicting German citizens voluntarily bringing warm clothing for the Nazi soldiers on the Eastern front; dated c. 1942.
- EHRI
- Archief
- us-005578-irn46865
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Photographs.
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