Komski, Jan
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Name (Hebrew)
קומסקי, יאן
Name (Latin)
Komski, Jan
Other forms of name
Baraś-Komski, Jan
Komski, John
Date of birth
1915-02-03
Date of death
2002-07-20
Field of activity
Holocaust survivors
Nazi concentration camp inmates as artists
Occupation
Artists
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- His Za drutami, 1946:t.p. (Jan Komski) p. 3 (artist and painter, former political prisoner in Auschwitz)
- 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)
- 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)
- cf. Eyewitness, [2000] [videorecording]