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Jul 26, 2023 · Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied military corps that hunted down and recovered countless artworks stolen by the Nazis, died July 14 in Chicago. He was 98.
- Becoming A Monuments Man
- Life in Cambridge
- Life After Cambridge
Born in Chicago, Richard enlisted in the US Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942 at 17 years old. He recalls that his initial army training included a stint at the University of Nebraska where he studied basic engineering: In 1944 Richard was transferred to England with the newly-formed 66th Division, 263rd regiment. On Christmas Eve 1944, he crosse...
Sixty of the US service personnel admitted to Cambridge under the auspices of the TWCA programme were accommodated across the different Cambridge Colleges, but the remaining 89 were billeted at the Bull building, which soon became known as ‘Bull College’ (coined by Sir John Sheppard, provost of King’s College). Richard has fond memories of life at ...
Richard reluctantly left Cambridge even after being accepted as a full (non-TWCA) student at the University:
Jul 22, 2023 · Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied unit known as the Monuments Men and Women, which during and after World War II preserved a vast amount of European artworks and...
Jul 26, 2023 · Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied military corps that hunted down and recovered countless artworks stolen by the Nazis, died July 14 in Chicago. He was 98.
Jul 25, 2023 · Richard M. Barancik, the last living member of the Monuments Men and Women of the Second World War—an international group of roughly 350 people who worked together during and after the war...
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Jul 26, 2023 · JTA — Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied military corps that hunted down and recovered countless artworks stolen by the Nazis, died July 14 in Chicago. He was 98.
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Aug 2, 2023 · Richard Barancik, who has died aged 98, was the last of the so-called Monuments Men who set out to safeguard some of Europe’s most valuable pieces of Western culture plundered by the Nazis...
