Wacław Leon Czarnecki (2 August 1902 – 16 May 1990) a Polish journalist, who before World War II was a member of the Polish Socialist Party; after World War II he was a member of the Society of Fighters for Freedom and Democracy (ZBoWiD) and the Society of Polish Journalists (Stowarzyszenie Dziennikarzy Polskich). He was a prisoner of the Majdanek and Buchenwald Nazi concentration camps, an active member of secret communist and anti-fascist organisations in Buchenwald; he co-authored (with Zygmunt Zonik) monographs about the Buchenwald concentration camp (inspired by his Buchenwald friend Kazi