Woman in iconic WWII Times Square kiss photograph dies at 92
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Woman in iconic WWII Times Square kiss photograph dies at 92
The woman dramatically kissed by a sailor celebrating the end of World War II in Times Square in an iconic photograph seen around the world has died. She was 92. Greta Zimmer Friedman’s son says his mother died Thursday at a Richmond, Va., hospital of what he called complications from old age.
I’m not sure about the kiss…it was just somebody celebrating. …It was just an event of ‘thank God the war is over.’
Friedman recalled in a 2005 interview archived by the Veterans History Project
Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform on Aug. 14, 1945. She went to Times Square amid reports that the war had ended. That’s when she was kissed by George Mendonsa celebrating Japan’s surrender. Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt captured the moment. It became one of the most famous photographs of the 20th century. Joshua Friedman says his mother recalled it all happening in an instant.
