Friedman told CNN that his mother died at an assisted living home in Richmond, Virginia.
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Friedman’s claim was never settled indisputably over the others.
That is when George Mendonsa spotted Ms Friedman, spun her around and planted a kiss.
They say it depicted sexual assault because Friedman never consented to being kissed, but Friedman has publicly said that she never made a complaint against Mendonza and maintained a friendship with him for years after.
According to a 2005 interview with the Veterans History Project, Friedman was just minding her business, taking in the scene, when a rogue sailor ran up and inserted her into a historical narrative from which she may well have wanted to be excluded.
A poster commemorating Alfred Eisenstaedt’s photograph hangs in Times Square on August 14, 2015, taken 70 years ago to the date, on Victory in Japan Day.
Friedman, who had been living at an assisted living facility in northern Virginia, died September 8, CBS reported, quoting her son, Joseph Friedman.
Greta Zimmer Friedman recently contracted pneumonia and was ill for long time.
She managed to persuade Lawrence Verria and George Galdorisi, co-authors of the 2012 book “The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo that Ended World War II”.
Friedman said she did not see the photo until the 1960s, when she came upon a book of Eisenstaedt’s images and found the moment immortalized on the page. Greta meanwhile had said: “That man was very strong. It wasnt a romantic event”. She had been working at a dentist’s office on August 14, which was why she was wearing the white nurse’s outfit, she recalled in the Veterans History Project interview.
Greta Friedman landed in New York City.
She will be laid to rest with her late husband, Mischa Elliot Friedman, at Arlington national cemetery in Virginia. Edith Shain, who died in 2010, also claimed she was the nurse in white. In fact, the sailor’s future wife, Rita Mendonsa, can be seen grinning above his shoulder in the photograph.
Alfred Eisenstaedt took the photo as people spilled into the New York City streets to celebrate VJ Day.
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“The excitement of the war being over, plus I had a few drinks, so when I saw the nurse I grabbed her, and I kissed her”.
