Wacław Czarnecki



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