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 The Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy ( pl, Związek Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, ZBoWiD) was an official Polish state-controlled veterans association in the People's Republic of Poland. Initially headed by Franciszek Jóźwi ...

(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 Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a s ...

and

anti-fascist Anti-fascism is a political movement in opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals. Beginning in European countries in the 1920s, it was at its most significant shortly before and during World War II, where the Axis powers were ...

organisations in Buchenwald; he co-authored (with Zygmunt Zonik)

monograph A monograph is a specialist work of writing (in contrast to reference works) or exhibition on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, often by a single author or artist, and usually on a scholarly subject. In library cataloging, ''monograph ...

s about the Buchenwald concentration camp (inspired by his Buchenwald friend

Kazimierz Nowicki Kazimierz (; la, Casimiria; yi, קוזמיר, Kuzimyr) is a historical district of Kraków and Kraków Old Town, Poland. From its inception in the 14th century to the early 19th century, Kazimierz was an independent city, a royal city of the ...

) and its sub-camp

Mittelbau-Dora Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) was a Nazi concentration camp located near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany. It was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp, supplying slave labour ...

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

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External links

Individual Files (male) – Concentration Camp Buchenwald: Wacław Czarnecki. Arolsen Archives
Accessed 1 August 2019. 1902 births 1990 deaths Buchenwald concentration camp survivors Majdanek concentration camp survivors 20th-century Polish journalists {{Poland-journalist-stub