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Komski, Jan

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Personal name headingKomski, Jan
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Variant(s)Baraś-Komski, Jan
Komski, John
Birth date1915
Death date2002
Place of birthBircza (Poland)
Place of deathArlington (Va.)
Field of activityConcentration camp inmates as artists Holocaust survivors
AffiliationAkademia Sztuk Pięknych w Krakowie Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Dachau (Concentration camp) Gross-Rosen (Concentration camp) Hersbruck (Concentration camp)
Profession or occupationArtists
Found inHis Za drutami, 1946: t.p. (Jan Komski) p. 3 (artist and painter, former political prisoner in Auschwitz)
US Holocaust Memorial Museum catalog, 23 September 2014 (Komski, Jan; usage: John Komski, Jan Komski: graduated from the Academy of Arts in Kraków in 1939; deported to Auschwitz in 1940; worked in the architect's office, helping to create the museum in Auschwitz in 1941, collecting items of interest from the incoming inmates; surviving Birkenau, Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen, Hersbruck, and Dachau)
Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu website, 23 September 2014 (Jan Baraś-Komski urodził się 3 lutego 1915 roku w Birczy niedaleko Sanoka; zmarł 20 lipca 2002 r. w Arlington)