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Jan 20, 1924 Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 26 Jan 2016 (aged 92)
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About Jerzy Tomaszewski Photographer
- Jerzy Tomaszewski (1924 – 26 January 2016), nom de guerre Jur, was a Polish World War II photographer, artist, and reporter, awarded the Order of Polonia Restituta by President Lech Kaczynski. Tomaszewski is best known for the roughly 1,000 photographs of the Warsaw Uprising which he took in 1944.
- He was assigned by the Polish underground Bureau of Information and Propaganda (BIP) to document the battle.
- He photographed in the districts of Powisle, Sródmiescie and Wola, until he was wounded on September 6, 1944.
- The last photo he took was of the several bodies lying in the street of the Old Town, without signs of life.
