The iconic photograph marked the end of World War II and Greta, dressed in nurse’s uniform, can be seen kissing an ecstatic sailor.
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Friedman was a 21-year-old dental assistant in a nurse’s uniform on August 14, 1945, known as V-J Day, the day the Japanese surrendered.
Her son, Joshua Friedman, said she died on Thursday in Virginia after suffering a series of ailments, including pneumonia, NBC News reported.
The iconic photo by Alfred Eisenstaedt is called “V-J Day in Times Square”, but it is more commonly known as “The Kiss”.
That is when George Mendonsa spotted Ms Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss.
Booze flowed; inhibitions were cast off; there were probably as many fists thrown as kisses planted: in other words, once the inconceivable had actually been confirmed and it was clear that the century’s deadliest, most devastating war was finally over, Americans who for years had become accustomed to nearly ceaseless news of death and loss were not quite ready for a somber, restrained reaction to the surrender. Edith Shain, who died in 2010, also claimed she was the nurse in white.
“It wasn’t that much of a kiss”, Friedman said in an interview with the Veterans History Project in 2005. It was published in Life magazine just a few weeks later. She was 92, and had been living in an assisted-living community, Joshua Friedman said.
CBS News reunited Friedman (left) and Mendonsa in Times Square in 2012. It wasnt a romantic event..
During the war, Ms Friedman fled Austria for the United States of America to escape the Holocaust.
Friedman went on to marry a doctor, Misha Friedman.
The black-and-white photo captured a nation’s relief and joy at wars’ end, with dozens of sailors and civilians celebrating on the street as Mendonsa kissed Friedman.
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