New details have emerged about deceased Nazi collaborator Bob Sredersas, whose art donations helped establish the collection at Wollongong Art Gallery.
Dr Efraim Zuroff, the Coordinator of Simon Wiesenthal Centre Nazi war crimes research worldwide, has said the Centre welcomes the decision of the Wollongong City Council to remove the name of Nazi collaborator Bronius Sredersas from a room in the Wollongong Art Gallery dedicated to him. The room was named for Sredersas for his donation of significant Australian…
The Wollongong City Council is awaiting the results of reviews underway to assess the claim that Bronius Sredersas was involved in killing Jews in Lithuania in WWII before making its next move. Sredersas lived alone in Wollongong after immigrating to Australia and amassed a significant art collection which he gifted to the council and has been…
Bronius Sredersas was not a big earner but he amassed a fortune in carefully selecting prime Australian art and objets d'art which covered the walls of his very humble home on the Wollongong. But now there is hunt for the verification that the Lithuanian was a member of the SD death squads which killed tens…
The steel city knew him as a migrant made good who contributed a great gift to the arts. But one man has been digging into the true identity of Bob Sredersas