John Paul Wronski photograph collection

Identifier
irn46865
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.203.1
Dates
1 Jan 1942 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46865

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bertha Wronski

Acquired by John Paul Wronski (donor's late husband) while serving with the US Army in Europe during WWII. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Bertha Wronski. An accretion of one postcard was added to the collection by Bertha Wronski in 2013.

Scope and Content

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.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.