This was certainly her last kiss – yes, after spending 92 years in this terrestrial existence, Greta Zimmer Friedman, the woman in ‘The Kiss’ photograph, finally kissed the world goodbye.
The former dental nurse was immortalised in an iconic photograph captured in Times Square (New York) on August 14, 1945, known as V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day), where she shared a kiss with an unknown sailor when Japan surrendered to the US in World War II.
People poured into streets in New York City from restaurants, bars and cinema halls, celebrating Japan's capitulation and the end of the Second World War.
Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt spotted then 21-year-old Greta Friedman wearing a nurse's uniform being spun around by George Mendonsa, a stranger, and locking lips with herin the chaotic celebration in the Big Apple.
The shot was published in Life magazine and became known as The Kiss.
During the war, as a 15-year-old girl, Greta Friedman fled Austria for the USA to escape the Holocaust.
She died of old age at a hospital in Richmond, Virginia, last Thursday, her son Joshua Friedman said.
