Community deserves to know the truth about steelworker turned art donor Bronius ‘Bob’ Sredersas, Jewish leader says
• ‘I am Bob. Just Bob’: could a Wollongong folk hero have had a Nazi past?
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A Lithuanian immigrant who may have been a Nazi collaborator during the second world war should be “removed from the fabric of Wollongong” if the claims can be verified, the New South Wales Jewish community says.
Bronius “Bob” Sredersas was a folk hero and former steelworker who has been a celebrated figure since he donated his art collection to the Wollongong Art Gallery in 1976 before his death in 1982.
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