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‘He didn’t feel like a hero,’ said his daughter, but he and his colleagues tracked down between four and five million objects
There is a handsome high-rise on Bellevue Place in the Gold Coast that features a lobby with a colorful mural filled with flora and fauna. Two of the building’s elevators are similarly adorned and, if you look closely enough, you can see a name in each: Jill and Ellen. They are the youngest children of Richard Barancik, the man who designed and developed this building. They lived there with ...
His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in the 2014 Hollywood film.
His unit, tasked with safeguarding European art and culture amid the destruction and plunder of war, was dramatized in the film "The Monuments Men."
Richard Barancik, the last surviving member of the Allied unit known as the Monuments Men and Women, which during and after World War II preserved a vast amount of European artworks and cultural treasures that had been looted and hidden by Nazi Germany, died July 14 in Chicago. He was 98.