1915 - 2002, Jan Baraś-Komski (February 3, 1915, Bircza, Przemyśl County, Poland - July 20, 2002, Arlington County, Virginia) was a Polish painter. He studied painting, anatomy, and art history at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts. US Holocaust Memorial Museum catalog, 23 September 2014 |b (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). Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oświęcimiu website, 23 September 2014 |b (Jan Baraś-Komski urodził się 3 lutego 1915 roku w Birczy niedaleko Sanoka; zmarł 20 lipca 2002 r. w Arlington)