| LC control no. | n 90601796 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gotfryd, Bernard |
| Birth date | 1924 |
| Death date | 2016 |
| Found in | His Anton, the dove fancier, c1990: CIP t.p. (Bernard Gotfryd) Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division files: (Born to Jewish parents in Radom, Poland in 1924; began his photography career shortly after the outbreak of World War II doing studio work as an apprentice photographer. His involvement in activities aiding the Polish resistance resulted in his capture by the Nazis in 1943. He would endure imprisonments in six concentration camps before being liberated in 1945. Several years later, he immigrated to the United States and soon after was drafted into the U.S. Army with an assignment to the Signal Corps., where he served as a combat photographer. He became a photojournalist for Newsweek in 1957 and spent the next thirty years covering stories about prominent people in the arts, letters, and politics as well as national and international events. Gotfryd died in 2016) |
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