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The picture, taken in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945, shows Greta Zimmer Friedman getting a smoldering smooch from a sailor on V-J Day as the streets filled with people celebrating the Japanese ...
Greta Zimmer Friedman, who was kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century, died on Thursday in Virginia, her son, Joshua Friedman, told the Daily ...
The woman in the photograph was named Greta Zimmer Friedman. Her family announced that she died earlier this month at the age of 92. The photo was originally published a week after what became ...
Greta Zimmer Friedman’s son says his mother died Thursday at a hospital in Richmond, Va. She died from complications of old age, he said. Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse ...
Greta Zimmer Friedman, who achieved unlikely fame as half of a couple caught dramatically kissing in Times Square at the end of World War II by Alfred Eisenstaedt, died on September 8 at 92 years ...
Greta Zimmer Friedman, then a 21-year-old dental assistant, was kissed by a sailor on Aug. 14, 1945, during a celebration as news of the Japanese surrender reached home. The photo by Alfred ...
Greta Zimmer Friedman was grabbed by a sailor who planted a kiss on her lips in New York’s Times Square as the US celebrated the Japanese surrender in World War II. Then a 21-year-old dental ...
“You couldn’t find anything that would separate Greta Friedman from the nurse ... she was born Grete Zimmer in Wiener Neustadt, a city south of Vienna, on June 5, 1924.
If you have been alive and in possession of eyeballs at any point in the past 75 years, chances are, you have seen the photograph of George Mendonsa kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman on V-J Day in 1945.
“By the time I knew about it, I’d been married for years.” Today, Greta Zimmer Friedman lives in Frederick, Md. After the war, she learned that her parents had died in the camps, and she has ...
He was shown kissing Greta Zimmer Friedman, a dental assistant in a nurse's uniform, on Aug. 14, 1945. Known as V-J Day, it was the day Japan surrendered to the United States. The photo by Alfred ...