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title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
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Roman Polanski | Roman Polanski | 1933 | n/a | Polish | film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski |
Rosa Luxemburg | Rosa Luxemburg | 1871 | 1919 | Polish | revolutionary socialist, Marxist philosopher and anti-war activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg |
Israel Epstein | Israel Epstein | 1915 | 2005 | Polish | journalist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein |
Ben Abraham | Ben Abraham | 1924 | 2015 | Polish | writer and historian who became a naturalized Brazilian citizen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Abraham |
Leo Jogiches | Leon "Leo" Jogiches | 1867 | 1919 | Polish | Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania and Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Jogiches |
Raphael Lemkin | Raphael Lemkin | 1900 | 1959 | Polish | lawyer of Jewish descent who is best known for coining genocide and initiating the Genocide Convention, an interest spurred on after learning about the Armenian genocide and being horrified to find out that no international laws existed to prosecute the Ottoman leaders who had perpetrated these crimes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Lemkin |
Daniel Libeskind | Daniel Libeskind | 1946 | n/a | Polish | architect, artist, professor and set designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Libeskind |
Haym Salomon | Haym Salomon | 1740 | 1785 | Polish | Jewish businessman and political financial broker who, along with English-born Robert Morris, was a prime financier of the rebel American side during the American Revolutionary War against Great Britain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haym_Salomon |
Jerzy Urban | Jerzy Urban | 1933 | n/a | Polish | journalist, commentator, writer and politician, editor-in-chief of the weekly Nie and owner of the company which owns it, Urma | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Urban |
Jakub Berman | Jakub Berman | 1901 | 1984 | Polish | communist politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Berman |
Chaim Goldberg | Chaim Goldberg | 1917 | 2004 | Polish | artist, painter, sculptor, and engraver | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Goldberg |
Rutka Laskier | Rut "Rutka" Laskier | 1929 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish diarist who is best known for her 1943 diary chronicling the three months of her life during the Holocaust in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutka_Laskier |
Adam Michnik | Adam Michnik | 1946 | n/a | Polish | historian, essayist, former dissident, public intellectual, and editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Michnik |
Herman Rosenblat | Herman A. Rosenblat | 1929 | 2015 | Polish | author, known for writing a fictitious Holocaust memoir titled Angel at the Fence, purporting to tell the true story of a girl who passed him food through the barbed-wire fence at the Schlieben sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II. The book was planned to be published in 2009 by Berkley Books, but was cancelled after it turned out that many elements of his memoir were fabricated and some were contrary to verifiable historical facts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Rosenblat |
Johannes Zukertort | Johannes Hermann Zukertort | 1842 | 1888 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Zukertort |
Anatol Fejgin | Anatol Fejgin | 1909 | 2002 | Polish | Jewish communist activist before World War II, and after 1949, commander of the Stalinist political police at the Ministry of Public Security of Poland,Poland: Last surviving leader of 1950s political police dies in charge of its notorious Special Bureau (the 10th Department) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Fejgin |
Paul Baran | Paul Baran | 1926 | 2011 | Polish | engineer who was a pioneer in the development of computer networks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Baran |
Aaron Kosminski | Aaron Kosminski | 1865 | 1919 | Polish | barber and hairdresser, and suspect in the Jack the Ripper case | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Kosminski |
Solomon Asch | Solomon Eliot Asch | 1907 | 1996 | Polish | Gestalt psychologist and pioneer in social psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Asch |
Stanisław Lem | Stanisław Herman Lem | 1921 | 2006 | Polish | writer of science fiction and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Lem |
Jankiel Wiernik | Jankiel (Yankel, Yaakov | 1889 | 1972 | Polish | Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik |
Samuel Goldwyn | Samuel Goldwyn | 1882 | 1974 | Polish | film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn |
Feliks Kon | Feliks Yakovlevich Kon | 1864 | 1941 | Polish | communist activist, politician, ethnographer, publicist and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliks_Kon |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | Isaac Bashevis Singer | 1903 | 1991 | Polish | Jewish-American writer who wrote and published first in Yiddish and later translated himself into English with the help of editors and collaborators | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Bashevis_Singer |
Joseph Kushner | Joseph Kushner | 1922 | 1985 | Polish | real estate investor and developer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Kushner |
Henri Tajfel | Henri Tajfel | 1919 | 1982 | Polish | social psychologist, best known for his pioneering work on the cognitive aspects of prejudice and social identity theory, as well as being one of the founders of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Tajfel |
Albert Sabin | Albert Bruce Sabin | 1906 | 1993 | Polish | medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Sabin |
Józef Unszlicht | Józef Unszlicht or Iosif Stanislavovich Unshlikht | 1879 | 1938 | Polish | revolutionary activist, a Soviet government official and one of the founders of the Cheka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Unszlicht |
Hilary Minc | Hilary Minc | 1905 | 1974 | Polish | economist and communist politician prominent in Stalinist Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Minc |
Julian Tuwim | Julian Tuwim | 1894 | 1953 | Polish | poet, born in Łódź, then part of the Russian Partition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Tuwim |
Yakov Ganetsky | Yakov Hanecki | 1879 | 1937 | Polish | prominent communist and close associate of Vladimir Lenin, (Zalesskiy K.A. Stalin's Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Ganetsky |
Lee Strasberg | Lee Strasberg | 1901 | 1982 | Polish | actor, director, and theatre practitioner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Strasberg |
Stanislaw Ulam | Stanisław Marcin Ulam | 1909 | 1984 | Polish | scientist in the fields of mathematics and nuclear physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw_Ulam |
Arthur Rubinstein | Arthur Rubinstein | 1887 | 1982 | Polish | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Rubinstein |
Zygmunt Bauman | Zygmunt Bauman | 1925 | 2017 | Polish | sociologist and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Bauman |
Agata Kornhauser-Duda | Agata Kornhauser-Duda | 1972 | n/a | Polish | former teacher and the current first lady of Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agata_Kornhauser-Duda |
Julian Kornhauser | Julian Kornhauser | 1946 | n/a | Polish | poet and literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Kornhauser |
Jacob Burck | Jacob "Jake" Burck | 1907 | 1982 | Polish | Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Burck |
Alfred Tarski | Alfred Tarski | 1901 | 1983 | Polish | logician and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tarski |
Joseph Rotblat | Sir Joseph Rotblat | 1908 | 2005 | Polish | physicist, a self-described "Pole with a British passport" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rotblat |
Jan Grabowski | Jan Grabowski | 1962 | n/a | Polish | professor of history at the University of Ottawa, specializing in Jewish–Polish relations in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Grabowski |
Agnieszka Holland | Agnieszka Holland | 1948 | n/a | Polish | film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Holland |
Henry Morgentaler | Henekh "Henry" Morgentaler | 1923 | 2013 | Polish | Jewish-born Canadian physician and abortion rights advocate who fought numerous legal battles aimed at expanding abortion rights in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Morgentaler |
Adolf Berman | Adolf Avraham Berman | 1906 | 1978 | Polish | activist and communist politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Berman |
Benoit Mandelbrot | Benoit B. Mandelbrot | 1924 | 2010 | Polish | mathematician and polymath with broad interests in the practical sciences, especially regarding what he labeled as "the art of roughness" of physical phenomena and "the uncontrolled element in life" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot |
Isaac Deutscher | Isaac Deutscher | 1907 | 1967 | Polish | Marxist writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom before the outbreak of World War II. He is best known as a biographer of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin and as a commentator on Soviet affairs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Deutscher |
Marion Kozak | Marion Kozak or Marion Kozak Miliband | 1934 | n/a | Polish | activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Kozak |
Roald Hoffmann | Roald Hoffmann | 1937 | n/a | Polish | theoretical chemist who won the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Hoffmann |
Joe Kubert | Joseph Kubert | 1926 | 2012 | Polish | comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Kubert |
Gena Turgel | Gena Turgel | 1923 | 2018 | Polish | Jewish author, educator, and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gena_Turgel |
Bruno Schulz | Bruno Schulz | 1892 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish writer, fine artist, literary critic and art teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Schulz |
Janusz Korczak | Janusz Korczak, the pen name of Henryk Goldszmit | 1878 | 1879 | Polish | Jewish educator, children's author and pedagogue known as Pan Doktor ("Mr. Doctor") or Stary Doktor ("Old Doctor") | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak |
Julia Brystiger | Julia Brystiger | 1902 | 1975 | Polish | Jewish communist activist and member of the security apparatus in Stalinist Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Brystiger |
Jacob Bronowski | Jacob Bronowski | 1908 | 1974 | Polish | mathematician and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski |
Georges Charpak | Georges Charpak | 1924 | 2010 | Polish | physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Charpak |
Yisrael Kristal | Yisrael Kristal | 1903 | 2017 | Polish | supercentenarian recognized in 2014 as the oldest living Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yisrael_Kristal |
Zeev Sternhell | Zeev Sternhell | 1935 | 2020 | Polish | historian, political scientist, commentator on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeev_Sternhell |
Jerzy Kosiński | Jerzy Kosiński | 1933 | 1991 | Polish | novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N., who wrote primarily in English | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kosiński |
Helena Rubinstein | Helena Rubinstein | 1872 | 1965 | Polish | businesswoman, art collector, and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Rubinstein |
Henryk M. Broder | Henryk Marcin Broder | 1946 | n/a | Polish | journalist, author, and TV personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_M._Broder |
Hilary Koprowski | Hilary Koprowski | 1916 | 2013 | Polish | virologist and immunologist active in the United States who demonstrated the world's first effective live polio vaccine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Koprowski |
David Olère | David Olère | 1902 | 1985 | Polish | painter and sculptor best known for his explicit drawings and paintings based on his experiences as a Jewish Sonderkommando inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Olère |
Michał Kalecki | Michał Kalecki | 1899 | 1970 | Polish | Marxian economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Kalecki |
Adolf Warski | Adolf Warski | 1868 | 1937 | Polish | communist leader, journalist and theoretician of the communist movement in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Warski |
Paweł Pawlikowski | Paweł Aleksander Pawlikowski | 1957 | n/a | Polish | filmmaker and Oscar award winning Filmproducer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paweł_Pawlikowski |
Marcel Reich-Ranicki | Marcel Reich-Ranicki | 1920 | 2013 | Polish | literary critic and member of the literary group Gruppe 47 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Reich-Ranicki |
Leonard Chess | Lejzor Szmuel Czyż | 1917 | 1969 | Polish | record company executive and the co-founder of Chess Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Chess |
Marek Edelman | Marek Edelman | 1919 | 1922 | Polish | political and social activist and cardiologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Edelman |
Leonid Hurwicz | Leonid Hurwicz | 1917 | 2008 | Polish | economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Hurwicz |
Jan T. Gross | Jan Tomasz Gross | 1947 | n/a | Polish | sociologist and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_T._Gross |
Tamara de Lempicka | Tamara Łempicka | 1898 | 1980 | Polish | painter who spent her working life in France and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_de_Lempicka |
Shlomo Goren | Shlomo Goren | 1917 | 1994 | Polish | Orthodox Religious Zionist rabbi and Talmudic scholar who was considered a foremost authority on Jewish law (Halakha) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Goren |
Roman Romkowski | Roman Romkowski born Natan Grünspan-Kikiel | 1907 | 1965 | Polish | communist official trained by Comintern in Moscow, who settled in Warsaw after the Soviet takeover, and became second in command (the deputy minister) the Ministry of Public Security (MBP or colloquially UB) during the late 1940s and early 1950s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Romkowski |
Samuel Reshevsky | Samuel Herman Reshevsky | 1911 | 1992 | Polish | chess prodigy and later a leading American chess grandmaster | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Reshevsky |
Bronisław Kaper | Bronisław Kaper | 1902 | 1983 | Polish | film composer who scored films and musical theater in Germany, France, and the USA. The American immigration authorities misspelled his name as Bronislau Kaper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Kaper |
Ludwik Dorn | Ludwik Stanisław Dorn | 1954 | n/a | Polish | Jewish conservative politician, former Deputy Prime Minister and member of Sejm elected on 5 November 2007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Dorn |
Frank Blaichman | Frank Blaichman | 1922 | 2018 | Polish | Jewish leader of a communist armed organization during World War II and a Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Blaichman |
Abraham Joshua Heschel | Abraham Joshua Heschel | 1907 | 1972 | Polish | rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Joshua_Heschel |
Savielly Tartakower | Savielly Tartakower | 1887 | 1956 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savielly_Tartakower |
Israel Gutman | Israel Gutman | 1923 | 2013 | Polish | historian and a survivor of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Gutman |
Henryk Wieniawski | Henryk Wieniawski | 1835 | 1880 | Polish | virtuoso violinist, composer and pedagogue who is regarded amongst the greatest violinists in history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Wieniawski |
Tadeusz Reichstein | Tadeusz Reichstein | 1897 | 1996 | Polish | chemist and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (1950), which was awarded for his work on the isolation of cortisone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Reichstein |
Samuel Pisar | Samuel Pisar | 1929 | 2015 | Polish | lawyer, author, and a Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Pisar |
Leopold Trepper | Leopold Zakharovitch Trepper | 1904 | 1982 | Polish | Communist and career Soviet agent of the Red Army Intelligence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Trepper |
Max Webb | Max Webb | 1917 | 2018 | Polish | real estate developer and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Webb |
Balthus | Balthasar Klossowski de Rola | 1908 | 2001 | Polish | modern artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balthus |
Akiba Rubinstein | Akiba Kiwelowicz Rubinstein | 1880 | 1961 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiba_Rubinstein |
Władysław Szpilman | Władysław Szpilman | 1911 | 2000 | Polish | pianist and classical composer of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Szpilman |
Bronisław Geremek | Bronisław Geremek | null | null | Polish | social historian and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Geremek |
Szymon Datner | Szymon Datner | 1902 | 1989 | Polish | historian, Holocaust survivor and underground operative from Białystok, best known for his studies of the Nazi war crimes and events of The Holocaust in the Białystok region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Datner |
Else Frenkel-Brunswik | Else Frenkel-Brunswik | 1908 | 1958 | Polish | Jewish psychologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Else_Frenkel-Brunswik |
Wanda Landowska | Wanda Aleksandra Landowska | 1879 | 1959 | Polish | harpsichordist and pianist whose performances, teaching, writings and especially her many recordings played a large role in reviving the popularity of the harpsichord in the early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Landowska |
Henryk Szeryng | Henryk Szeryng | 1918 | 1988 | Polish | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Szeryng |
Jerzy Borejsza | Jerzy Borejsza | 1905 | 1952 | Polish | communist activist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Borejsza |
Stanisław Krajewski | Stanisław Krajewski | 1950 | n/a | Polish | philosopher, mathematician and writer, activist of the Jewish minority in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Krajewski |
Franceska Mann | Franceska Manheimer-Rosenberg | 1917 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish ballerina who, according to some accounts, killed a Nazi guard, , while a prisoner at the Auschwitz concentration camp and wounded at least one other, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franceska_Mann |
Adam Ulam | Adam Bruno Ulam | 1922 | 2000 | Polish | historian of Jewish descent and political scientist at Harvard University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ulam |
Leo Sternbach | Leo Sternbach | 1908 | 2005 | Polish | chemist who is credited with first synthesizing benzodiazepines, the main class of tranquilizers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sternbach |
Phil Chess | Philip Chess | 1921 | 2016 | Polish | record producer and company executive, the co-founder with his brother of Chess Records | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Chess |
Emanuel Ringelblum | Emanuel Ringelblum | 1900 | none | Polish | Jewish historian, politician and social worker, known for his Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto, Notes on the Refugees in Zbąszyn chronicling the deportation of Jews from the town of Zbąszyń, and the so-called Ringelblum Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Ringelblum |
Irena Szewińska | Irena Szewińska | 1946 | 2018 | Polish | sprinter who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Szewińska |
Rudolph Maté | Rudolph Maté | 1898 | 1964 | Polish | cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before moving to Hollywood in the mid 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Maté |
Meir Shapiro | Yehuda Meir Shapiro | 1887 | 1933 | Polish | prominent Hasidic rabbi and rosh yeshiva, also known as the Lubliner Rav | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Shapiro |
Joseph Epstein | Joseph Epstein | 1911 | 1944 | Polish | Jewish communist activist and a French Resistance leader during World War II. He was executed by the Germans | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Epstein |
Henryk Mandelbaum | Henryk Mandelbaum | 1922 | 2008 | Polish | Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Mandelbaum |
Hugo Steinhaus | Władysław Hugo Dionizy Steinhaus | 1887 | 1972 | Polish | mathematician and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Steinhaus |
Kazimierz Kuratowski | Kazimierz Kuratowski | 1896 | 1980 | Polish | mathematician and logician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Kuratowski |
Bronisław Huberman | Bronisław Huberman | 1882 | 1947 | Polish | Jewish violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Huberman |
George E. Stone | George E. Stone | 1903 | 1967 | Polish | character actor in movies, radio, and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._Stone |
Stefan Kisielewski | Stefan Kisielewski | 1911 | 1991 | Polish | writer, publicist, composer and politician, and one of the members of Znak, one of the founders of the Unia Polityki Realnej, the Polish libertarian and conservative political party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kisielewski |
Janusz Morgenstern | Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern | 1922 | 2011 | Polish | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Morgenstern |
Józef Retinger | Józef Hieronim Retinger | 1888 | 1960 | Polish | scholar, international political activist with access to some of the leading power brokers of the 20th century, a publicist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Retinger |
Henryk Grossman | Henryk Grossman | 1881 | 1950 | Polish | economist, historian, and Marxist revolutionary active in both Poland and Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Grossman |
Samuel Eilenberg | Samuel Eilenberg | 1913 | 1998 | Polish | mathematician who co-founded category theory (with Saunders Mac Lane) and homological algebra | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eilenberg |
Berek Joselewicz | Berek Joselewicz | 1764 | 1809 | Polish | Jewish colonel of the Polish Army during the Kościuszko Uprising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berek_Joselewicz |
Alexandre Tansman | Alexander Tansman | 1897 | 1986 | Polish | composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor of Jewish origin, since 1938 a French citizen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Tansman |
Dominika Peczynski | Dominika Peczynski | 1970 | n/a | Polish | singer, model and television host | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominika_Peczynski |
Izrael Poznański | Izrael Kalman Poznański | 1833 | 1900 | Polish | Jewish businessman, textile magnate and philanthropist in Łódź, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire), and the husband of Eleonora Hertz Poznańska | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izrael_Poznański |
Louis Begley | Louis Begley | 1933 | n/a | Polish | Jewish novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Begley |
John Bluthal | John Bluthal | 1929 | 2018 | Polish | radio, stage, television and film character actor, comedian and voice artist, noted for his six-decade career internationally in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bluthal |
Ingrid Pitt | Ingrid Pitt | 1937 | 2010 | Polish | actress, author and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid_Pitt |
Renia Spiegel | Renia Spiegel | 1924 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish diarist who was killed during World War II in the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renia_Spiegel |
Adam Schaff | Adam Schaff | 1913 | 2006 | Polish | Marxist philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schaff |
Victor Alter | Victor Alter | 1890 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish socialist activist and Bund publicist, and a member of the executive committee of the Second International | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Alter |
Wojciech Has | Wojciech Jerzy Has | 1925 | 2000 | Polish | film director, screenwriter and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Has |
Peter Rachman | Perec "Peter" Rachman | 1919 | 1962 | Polish | landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London, England in the 1950s and early 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Rachman |
Simcha Blass | Simcha Blass | 1897 | 1982 | Polish | engineer and inventor who developed the modern drip irrigation system with his son Yeshayahu | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Blass |
Adam Czerniaków | Adam Czerniaków | 1880 | 1942 | Polish | engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing a cyanide pill, a day after the commencement of mass extermination of Jews known as the Grossaktion Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Czerniaków |
Ignacy Schwarzbart | Ignacy Izaak Schwarzbart | 1888 | 1961 | Polish | prominent Zionist, and one of Jewish representatives on the Polish National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile during the Second World War, along with Szmul Zygielbojm | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Schwarzbart |
Szmul Zygielbojm | Szmul Zygielbojm | null | null | Polish | Jewish socialist politician, Bund trade-union activist, and member of the National Council of the Polish government-in-exile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szmul_Zygielbojm |
Sholem Asch | Sholem Asch | 1880 | 1957 | Polish | Jewish novelist, dramatist, and essayist in the Yiddish language who settled in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sholem_Asch |
Two-Gun Cohen | Morris (Moishe) Abraham Cohen | 1887 | 1970 | Polish | adventurer of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Gun_Cohen |
Aron Bielski | Aron Bielski | 1927 | n/a | Polish | Jew and former member of the Bielski partisans group, the largest armed rescuers of Jews by Jews during World War II. He was also known as Arczyk Bielski | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Bielski |
Arthur Szyk | Arthur Szyk | 1894 | 1951 | Polish | Jewish artist who worked primarily as a book illustrator and political artist throughout his career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Szyk |
Jerzy Hoffman | Jerzy Hoffman | 1932 | n/a | Polish | director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Hoffman |
Franciszek Wójcicki | Franciszek Wójcicki | 1900 | 1983 | Polish | politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek_Wójcicki |
Stanisław Jerzy Lec | Stanisław Jerzy Lec | 1909 | 1966 | Polish | aphorist and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Jerzy_Lec |
Jakub Lejkin | Jakub Lejkin | 1906 | 1942 | Polish | lawyer, deputy commander subordinate to the Germans at the Warsaw Ghetto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Lejkin |
Leopold Infeld | Leopold Infeld | 1898 | 1968 | Polish | physicist who worked mainly in Poland and Canada (1938–1950) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Infeld |
Samuel Willenberg | Samuel Willenberg, nom de guerre Igo | 1923 | 2016 | Polish | Holocaust survivor, artist, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Willenberg |
Ignaz Friedman | Ignaz Friedman | null | null | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Friedman |
Ludwig Gumplowicz | Ludwig Gumplowicz | 1838 | 1909 | Polish | sociologist, jurist, historian, and political scientist, who taught constitutional and administrative law at the University of Graz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Gumplowicz |
Krystyna Skarbek | Maria Krystyna Janina Skarbek | 1908 | 1952 | Polish | agent of the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Skarbek |
Marie Rambert | Dame Marie Rambert, Mrs Dukes DBE | 1888 | 1982 | Polish | dancer and pedagogue who exerted great influence on British ballet, both as a dancer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Rambert |
Jan Kiepura | Jan Wiktor Kiepura | 1902 | 1966 | Polish | singer (tenor) and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kiepura |
Ned Glass | Nusyn "Ned" Glass | 1906 | 1984 | Polish | character actor who appeared in more than eighty films and on television more than one hundred times, frequently playing nervous, cowardly, or deceitful characters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Glass |
Joseph Jastrow | Joseph Jastrow | 1863 | 1944 | Polish | psychologist, noted for inventions in experimental psychology, design of experiments, and psychophysics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jastrow |
Mary Fairfax | Mary Elizabeth Fairfax | 1922 | 2017 | Polish | businesswoman and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fairfax |
Anna Held | Helene Anna Held | 1872 | 1918 | Polish | stage performer and singer on Broadway | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Held |
Roman Zambrowski | Roman Zambrowski | 1909 | 1977 | Polish | communist politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Zambrowski |
Mark Kac | Mark Kac | 1914 | 1984 | Polish | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kac |
Tadeusz Różewicz | Tadeusz Różewicz | 1921 | 2014 | Polish | poet, playwright, writer, and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Różewicz |
Elie Nadelman | Elie Nadelman | 1882 | 1946 | Polish | sculptor, draughtsman and collector of folk art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Nadelman |
Vladek Sheybal | Vladek Sheybal | 1923 | 1992 | Polish | character actor, singer and director of both television and stage productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladek_Sheybal |
Marek Borowski | Marek Stefan Borowski | 1946 | n/a | Polish | left-wing politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Borowski |
Bronisław Wildstein | Bronisław Wildstein | 1952 | n/a | Polish | former dissident, a journalist, freelance author and, from 11 May 2006 to 28 February 2007, was the chief executive officer of Telewizja Polska (Polish state-owned television) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronisław_Wildstein |
Anna Bikont | Anna Bikont | 1954 | n/a | Polish | journalist for the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Bikont |
Kazimiera Szczuka | Kazimiera Szczuka | 1966 | n/a | Polish | literary historian, literary critic, feminist and television personality, known from the Polish edition of The Weakest Link | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimiera_Szczuka |
Ida Haendel | Ida Haendel | 1928 | 2020 | Polish | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Haendel |
Kayah (singer) | Katarzyna Magdalena Rooijens | 1967 | n/a | Polish | singer-songwriter performing a variety of music genres, including pop, soul, jazz, world and dance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayah_(singer) |
Marceli Handelsman | Marceli Handelsman | 1882 | 1945 | Polish | historian, a Warsaw University professor, medievalist, modern historian, and historical methodologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marceli_Handelsman |
Gustaw Herling-Grudziński | Gustaw Herling-Grudziński | 1919 | 2000 | Polish | writer, journalist, essayist, World War II underground fighter, and political dissident abroad during the communist system in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaw_Herling-Grudziński |
Jan Kott | Jan Kott | 1914 | 2001 | Polish | political activist, critic and theoretician of the theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kott |
Ephraim Avigdor Speiser | Ephraim Avigdor Speiser | 1902 | 1965 | Polish | Jewish-born American Assyriologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Avigdor_Speiser |
Joseph Lawende | Joseph Lawende | 1847 | 1925 | Polish | cigarette salesman, who is, with Israel Schwartz, among the most discussed of witnesses in the series of murders committed by Jack the Ripper in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lawende |
Zalman Gradowski | Zalman Gradowski or Chaim Zalman Gradowski | 1910 | 1944 | Polish | Jewish prisoner of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during the Holocaust in occupied Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_Gradowski |
David Krech | David Krech | 1909 | 1977 | Polish | experimental and social psychologist who lectured predominately at the University of California, Berkeley | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Krech |
Aleksander Ford | Aleksander Ford | 1908 | 1980 | Polish | film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Following the war he was appointed director of the Film Polski company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Ford |
Michael Marks | Michael Marks | 1859 | 1907 | Polish | businessman and entrepreneur, who with Thomas Spencer co-founded the British retail chain Marks & Spencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Marks |
Julian Aleksandrowicz | Julian Aleksandrowicz | 1908 | 1988 | Polish | medical professional, professor of medicine, and a notable specialist on leukemia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Aleksandrowicz |
Paul Kletzki | Paul Kletzki | 1900 | 1973 | Polish | conductor and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kletzki |
Stanisław Aronson | Stanisław Witold Aronson | 1925 | n/a | Polish | Jew and an Israeli citizen, as well as a former officer of the Polish Home Army (AK) with a rank of Lieutenant Colonel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Aronson |
Stanisław Mazur | Stanisław Mieczysław Mazur | 1905 | 1981 | Polish | mathematician and a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Mazur |
Fred Rose (politician) | Fred Rose | 1907 | 1983 | Polish | politician and trade union organizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rose_(politician) |
Piotr Fronczewski | Piotr Fronczewski | 1946 | n/a | Polish | actor and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Fronczewski |
Jacob Wolfowitz | Jacob Wolfowitz | 1910 | 1981 | Polish | Jewish statistician and Shannon Award-winning information theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wolfowitz |
Mieczysław Horszowski | Mieczysław Horszowski | 1892 | 1993 | Polish | pianist who had one of the longest careers in the history of the performing arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Horszowski |
Grzegorz Fitelberg | Grzegorz Fitelberg | 1879 | 1953 | Polish | conductor, violinist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grzegorz_Fitelberg |
Jan Brzechwa | Jan Brzechwa | 1898 | 1966 | Polish | poet, author and lawyer, known mostly for his contribution to children's literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Brzechwa |
Antoni Słonimski | Antoni Słonimski | 1895 | 1976 | Polish | poet, artist, journalist, playwright and prose writer, president of the Union of Polish Writers in 1956–1959 during the Polish October, known for his devotion to social justice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Słonimski |
Chaïm Perelman | Chaïm Perelman | 1912 | 1984 | Polish | philosopher of law, who studied, taught, and lived most of his life in Brussels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaïm_Perelman |
Ben Barenholtz | Ben Barenholtz | 1935 | 2019 | Polish | film exhibitor, distributor and producer, who was a presence in the independent film scene since the late 1960s, when he opened The Elgin Cinema in New York City in 1968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Barenholtz |
Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner | Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner | 1877 | 1969 | Polish | engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tykociński-Tykociner |
Jurek Becker | Jurek Becker | 1937 | 1997 | Polish | writer, screenwriter and East German dissident | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurek_Becker |
Maurycy Gottlieb | Maurycy Gottlieb ; 21/28 February 1856 – 17 July 1879) | null | null | Polish | realist painter of the Romantic period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Gottlieb |
Bolesław Leśmian | Bolesław Leśmian | 1877 | 1937 | Polish | poet, artist and member of the Polish Academy of Literature, one of the first poets to introduce Symbolism and Expressionism to Polish verse | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Leśmian |
Andrzej Munk | Andrzej Munk | 1921 | 1961 | Polish | film director, screen writer and documentalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Munk |
Moriz Rosenthal | Moriz Rosenthal | 1862 | 1946 | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moriz_Rosenthal |
Ben Helfgott | Sir Ben Helfgott | 1929 | n/a | Polish | Holocaust survivor and former champion weightlifter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Helfgott |
Stefan Meller | Stefan Meller | 1942 | 2008 | Polish | diplomat and academician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Meller |
Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński | Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński | 1921 | 1944 | Polish | poet and Home Army soldier, one of the most well known of the Generation of Columbuses, the young generation of Polish poets, of whom several perished in the Warsaw Uprising and during the German occupation of Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kamil_Baczyński |
Casimir Funk | Kazimierz Funk | 1884 | 1967 | Polish | biochemist, generally credited with being among the first to formulate (in 1912) the concept of vitamins, which he called "vital amines" or "vitamines" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Funk |
David Seymour (photographer) | David Seymour | 1911 | 1956 | Polish | photographer and photojournalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Seymour_(photographer) |
Emil Leon Post | Emil Leon Post | 1897 | 1954 | Polish | mathematician and logician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Leon_Post |
Szymon Winawer | Szymon Abramowicz Winawer | 1838 | 1919 | Polish | Jewish chess player who won the German Chess Championship in 1883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Winawer |
Rose Schneiderman | Rose Schneiderman | 1882 | 1972 | Polish | socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent female labor union leaders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Schneiderman |
Salo Wittmayer Baron | Salo Wittmayer Baron | 1895 | 1989 | Polish | historian, described as "the greatest Jewish historian of the 20th century" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salo_Wittmayer_Baron |
Moshe Czerniak | Moshe Czerniak | 1910 | 1984 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Czerniak |
Peter Malkin | Peter Zvi Malkin | 1927 | 2005 | Polish | secret agent and member of the Mossad intelligence agency | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Malkin |
Melvin Dresher | Melvin Dresher | 1911 | 1992 | Polish | mathematician, notable for developing, with Merrill Flood, the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma while at RAND in 1950 (Albert W. Tucker gave the game its prison-sentence interpretation, and thus the name by which it is known today) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Dresher |
Zvi Hecker | Zvi Hecker | 1931 | n/a | Polish | architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zvi_Hecker |
Paweł Edelman | Paweł Edelman | 1958 | n/a | Polish | cinematographer from Łódź, known for his collaborations with acclaimed directors Roman Polanski and Andrzej Wajda | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paweł_Edelman |
Alexander Ramati | Alexander Ramati | 1921 | 2006 | Polish | writer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ramati |
Haim Hefer | Haim Hefer | 1925 | 2012 | Polish | songwriter, poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Hefer |
Myer Prinstein | Myer (or Meyer) Prinstein | 1878 | 1925 | Polish | track and field athlete and member of the Irish American Athletic Club | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myer_Prinstein |
Jerzy Einhorn | Jerzy Einhorn | 1925 | 2000 | Polish | medical doctor, researcher and politician (Kristdemokrat) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Einhorn |
Julius Fromm | Julius Fromm | 1883 | 1945 | Polish | entrepreneur, chemist, and one of the inventors of the rubber condom and who also made several other elastomeric products such as rubber gloves and hot water bottles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Fromm |
Milton Rokeach | Milton Rokeach | 1918 | 1988 | Polish | social psychologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Rokeach |
Julian Klaczko | Julian Klaczko | 1825 | n/a | Polish | author, proficient in Hebrew, Polish, French, and German | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Klaczko |
Herman Auerbach | Herman Auerbach | 1901 | 1942 | Polish | mathematician and member of the Lwów School of Mathematics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Auerbach |
Henryk Wars | Henryk Wars | 1947 | 1902 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Wars |
Konstanty Gebert | Konstanty Gebert | 1953 | n/a | Polish | journalist and a Jewish activist, as well as one of the most notable war correspondents of various Polish daily newspapers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstanty_Gebert |
Irving Glassberg | Irving Glassberg, A.S.C. | 1906 | 1958 | Polish | cinematographer, who worked on many Universal Pictures during the forties and fifties | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Glassberg |
Bella Darvi | Bella Darvi | 1928 | 1971 | Polish | film actress and stage performer who was active in France and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Darvi |
Witold Hurewicz | Witold Hurewicz | 1904 | 1956 | Polish | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Hurewicz |
Alona Frankel | Alona Frankel | 1937 | n/a | Polish | writer and illustrator of many classic children's books as well as recently published poetic memoirs for young adults | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alona_Frankel |
Helene Deutsch | Helene Deutsch | 1884 | 1982 | Polish | psychoanalyst and colleague of Sigmund Freud | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_Deutsch |
Alice Miller (psychologist) | Alice Miller | 1923 | 2010 | Polish | psychologist, psychoanalyst and philosopher of Jewish origin, who is noted for her books on parental child abuse, translated into several languages | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist) |
Roman Totenberg | Roman Totenberg | 1911 | 2012 | Polish | violinist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Totenberg |
Bruno Jasieński | Bruno Jasieński | 1901 | 1938 | Polish | poet, novelist, playwright, Catastrophist, and leader of the Polish Futurist movement in the interwar period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Jasieński |
Szymon Goldberg | Szymon Goldberg | 1909 | 1993 | Polish | Jewish classical violinist and conductor, latterly an American | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Goldberg |
Israel Joshua Singer | Israel Joshua Singer | 1893 | 1944 | Polish | Jewish novelist who wrote in Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Joshua_Singer |
Benjamin Feigenbaum | Benjamin Feigenbaum | 1860 | 1932 | Polish | Jewish socialist, newspaper editor, translator, and satirist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Feigenbaum |
Temerl Bergson | Temerl Bergson | 1830 | n/a | Polish | Jewish businesswoman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temerl_Bergson |
Irena Krzywicka | Irena Krzywicka née Goldberg | 1899 | 1994 | Polish | feminist, writer, translator and activist for women's rights, who promoted sexual education, contraception and planned parenthood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Krzywicka |
Moïse Kisling | Moïse Kisling | 1891 | 1953 | Polish | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moïse_Kisling |
Ludwik Fleck | Ludwik Fleck | 1896 | 1961 | Polish | Jewish physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf WeiglT | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Fleck |
Felix Zandman | Felix Zandman | 1928 | 2011 | Polish | entrepreneur and founder of Vishay Intertechnology – one of the world's largest manufacturers of electronic components | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Zandman |
Maria Szymanowska | Maria Szymanowska | 1789 | 1831 | Polish | composer and one of the first professional virtuoso pianists of the 19th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Szymanowska |
Henryk Gold | Henryk Gold | 1902 | 1977 | Polish | composer, arranger, and orchestra director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Gold |
Alter Mojze Goldman | Alter Mojze Goldman | 1909 | 1988 | Polish | Jew who was active in the French Résistance during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter_Mojze_Goldman |
Alojzy Ehrlich | Alojzy "Alex" Ehrlich | 1914 | 1992 | Polish | table tennis player, widely regarded as one of the best players in Polish history of this sport, who three times won silver in the World Championships | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alojzy_Ehrlich |
Kazimierz Fajans | Kazimierz Fajans | 1887 | 1975 | Polish | physical chemist of Polish-Jewish origin, a pioneer in the science of radioactivity and the discoverer of chemical element protactinium | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Fajans |
Juliusz Schauder | Juliusz Paweł Schauder | 1899 | 1943 | Polish | mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Schauder |
Roman Brandstaetter | Roman Brandstaetter | 1906 | 1987 | Polish | writer, poet, playwright, journalist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Brandstaetter |
Michał Bergson | Michał Bergson (Bergsohn) | 1820 | 1898 | Polish | composer and pianist, promoter of Frédéric Chopin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Bergson |
Jerzy Petersburski | Jerzy Petersburski | 1895 | 1979 | Polish | Jewish pianist and composer of popular music, renowned mostly for his Tangos, some of which (such as To ostatnia niedziela, Już nigdy and Tango Milonga) were milestones in popularization of the musical genre in Poland and are still widely known today, more than half a century after their creation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Petersburski |
Sala Burton | Sala Galante Burton | 1925 | 1987 | Polish | politician who served as a United States Representative from California from 1983 until her death from colon cancer in Washington, D. C., in 1987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala_Burton |
Dawid Przepiórka | Dawid Przepiórka | 1880 | 1940 | Polish | prominent chess player of the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawid_Przepiórka |
Artur Gold | Artur (Arthur) Gold | 1897 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish violinist and dance-music composer during the Interbellum | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Gold |
Mordechaï Podchlebnik | Mordechaï Podchlebnik or Michał Podchlebnik | 1907 | 1985 | Polish | Jew who managed to survive the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechaï_Podchlebnik |
Alfred Lampe | Alfred Lampe | 1900 | 1943 | Polish | communist politician and theorist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Lampe |
Adam Daniel Rotfeld | Adam Daniel Rotfeld | 1938 | n/a | Polish | researcher, diplomat, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland from 5 January 2005 until 31 October 2005 when a change of government took place | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Daniel_Rotfeld |
Kurt Katch | Kurt Katch | 1893 | 1958 | Polish | film and television actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Katch |
Anatol Stern | Anatol Stern | 1899 | 1968 | Polish | poet, writer and art critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Stern |
Joseph Schleifstein | Joseph Schleifstein | 1941 | n/a | Polish | who survived the Buchenwald concentration camp at the age of four | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Schleifstein |
Naftali Botwin | Izaak Naftali Botwin | null | null | Polish | communist and labour activist who was executed for the murder of a police informant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftali_Botwin |
Shmuel Ben-Artzi | Shmuel Ben-Artzi | 1914 | 2011 | Polish | writer, poet and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Ben-Artzi |
Lidia Zamenhof | Lidia Zamenhof | 1904 | 1942 | Polish | writer, publisher, translator and the youngest daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidia_Zamenhof |
Christian David Ginsburg | Christian David Ginsburg | 1831 | 1914 | Polish | Bible scholar and a student of the Masoretic tradition in Judaism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_David_Ginsburg |
Paulino Frydman | Paulino (Paulin) Frydman | 1905 | 1982 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulino_Frydman |
Marian Hemar | Marian Hemar | 1901 | 1972 | Polish | poet, journalist, playwright, comedy writer, and songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Hemar |
Wanda Wiłkomirska | Wanda Wiłkomirska | 1929 | 2018 | Polish | violinist and academic teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Wiłkomirska |
Stefan Themerson | Stefan Themerson | 1910 | 1988 | Polish | writer of children's literature, poet and inventor of Semantic Poetry, novelist, script writer filmmaker, composer and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Themerson |
Joseph Burstyn | Joseph Burstyn | 1899 | 1953 | Polish | film distributor who specialized in the commercial release of foreign-language and American independent film productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Burstyn |
Irma May | Irma May | 1899 | n/a | Polish | social reformer and humanitarian who sought to publicise within North America the plight of Eastern European Jews during the 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irma_May |
Gerda Weissmann Klein | Gerda Weissmann Klein | 1924 | n/a | Polish | writer and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerda_Weissmann_Klein |
Ralph Korngold | Ralph Korngold | 1882 | 1964 | Polish | author and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Korngold |
Maria Gurowska | Maria Gurowska | 1915 | 1998 | Polish | judge in the People's Republic of Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gurowska |
Anatol Mühlstein | Anatol Mühlstein | 1889 | 1957 | Polish | diplomat and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatol_Mühlstein |
Szapsel Rotholc | Szapsel Rotholc | 1913 | 1996 | Polish | boxer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szapsel_Rotholc |
Rosa Raisa | Rosa Raisa | 1893 | 1963 | Polish | and Italian-trained Russian-Jewish dramatic operatic soprano who became a naturalized American | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Raisa |
Hanna Krall | Hanna Krall | 1935 | n/a | Polish | writer with a degree in journalism from the University of Warsaw, specializing among other subjects in the history of the Holocaust in occupied Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Krall |
Robert Remak | Robert Remak | 1815 | 1865 | Polish | Jewish-German embryologist, physiologist, and neurologist, born in Posen, Prussia, who discovered that the origin of cells was by the division of pre-existing cells | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Remak |
Abe Goldberg | Abraham "Abe" Goldberg | 1929 | 2016 | Polish | Jewish businessman whose Linter Group of companies grew to be a major textile and clothing manufacturing group in the 1980s, before collapsing under a mountain of debt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Goldberg |
Szymon Askenazy | Szymon Askenazy | 1865 | 1935 | Polish | Jewish historian, educator, statesman and diplomat, founder of the Askenazy school | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Askenazy |
Wanda Jakubowska | Wanda Jakubowska | 1907 | 1998 | Polish | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Jakubowska |
Uri Orlev | Uri Orlev | 1931 | n/a | Polish | children's author and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Orlev |
Joshua Falk | Joshua ben Alexander HaCohen Falk | 1555 | 1614 | Polish | Halakhist and Talmudist, best known as the author of the Beit Yisrael commentary on the Arba'ah Turim as well as Sefer Me'irat Enayim (סמ"ע) on Shulkhan Arukh | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Falk |
Edward Flatau | Edward Flatau | 1868 | 1932 | Polish | neurologist and psychiatrist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Flatau |
Gersz Salwe | Gersz Salwe | 1862 | 1920 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gersz_Salwe |
Alessandro Fersen | Alessandro Fersen | 1911 | 2001 | Polish | dramatist, actor, theater director, author and drama teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Fersen |
Mark Lidzbarski | Mark Lidzbarski | 1868 | 1928 | Polish | philologist, Semitist and translator of Mandaean texts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lidzbarski |
Karl Tausig | Karl Tausig | 1841 | 1871 | Polish | virtuoso pianist, arranger and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Tausig |
Szolem Mandelbrojt | Szolem Mandelbrojt | 1899 | 1983 | Polish | mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szolem_Mandelbrojt |
Paul Kochanski | Paul Kochanski | 1887 | 1934 | Polish | violinist, composer and arranger active in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kochanski |
Jankel Adler | Jankel Adler | 1895 | 1949 | Polish | painter and printmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankel_Adler |
Zuzanna Ginczanka | Zuzanna Ginczanka, pen name of Zuzanna Polina Gincburg | 1917 | 1945 | Polish | Jewish poet of the interwar period | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzanna_Ginczanka |
André Tchaikowsky | André Tchaikowsky | 1935 | 1982 | Polish | composer and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Tchaikowsky |
Samuel Rosenthal | Samuel Rosenthal | 1837 | 1902 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Rosenthal |
Allan Starski | Allan Mieczysław Starski | 1943 | n/a | Polish | Oscar-winning production designer and set decorator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Starski |
Albert Lewis (producer) | Albert E. Lewis | 1884 | 1978 | Polish | Broadway and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lewis_(producer) |
Henry Orenstein | Henry Orenstein | 1923 | 2021 | Polish | Jewish-American toymaker, professional poker player, entrepreneur and Holocaust survivor who resided in Verona, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Orenstein |
Lew Rywin | Lew Rywin | 1945 | n/a | Polish | film producer associated with Heritage Films (est | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Rywin |
Eva Kotchever | Eva Kotchever | 1891 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish émigré librarian and writer, who is the author of Lesbian Love and from 1925 to 1926 ran a popular, openly lesbian literary salon in Greenwich Village, Lower Manhattan, called Eve’s Hangout | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Kotchever |
Jan Woleński | Jan Hertrich-Woleński | 1940 | n/a | Polish | philosopher specializing in the history of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic and in analytic philosophy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Woleński |
Ignace Gelb | Ignace Jay Gelb | 1907 | n/a | Polish | ancient historian and Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_Gelb |
Émile Meyerson | Émile Meyerson | 1859 | 1933 | Polish | epistemologist, chemist, and philosopher of science | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Émile_Meyerson |
Mieczysław Maneli | Mieczysław Maneli | 1922 | 1994 | Polish | lawyer, diplomat and academic best remembered for his work with the International Control Commission (ICC) during the Vietnam War, especially the "Maneli Affair" of 1963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Maneli |
Ignatz Waghalter | Ignatz Waghalter | 1881 | 1949 | Polish | composer and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatz_Waghalter |
José Ber Gelbard | José Ber Gelbard | 1917 | 1977 | Polish | activist and politician, and a member of the Argentine Communist Party | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/José_Ber_Gelbard |
Józef Wieniawski | Józef Wieniawski | 1837 | 1912 | Polish | pianist, composer, conductor and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Wieniawski |
Louis Lewandowski | Louis Lewandowski | 1821 | 1894 | Polish | Jewish-Jewish composer of synagogal music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Lewandowski |
Alexander Flamberg | Alexander Flamberg | 1880 | 1926 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Flamberg |
Edward Marczewski | Edward Marczewski | 1907 | 1976 | Polish | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Marczewski |
Henryk Friedman | Henryk Friedman (Friedmann) | 1903 | 1942 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Friedman |
Alexander Bogen | Alexander Bogen | 1916 | 2010 | Polish | visual artist, a decorated leader of partisans during World War II, a key player in 20th century Yiddish culture, and one of the trailblazers for art education and Artists' associations in the emerging state of Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Bogen |
Itzhak Katzenelson | Itzhak Katzenelson | 1886 | 1944 | Polish | Jewish teacher, poet and dramatist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzhak_Katzenelson |
Leopold Tyrmand | Leopold Tyrmand | 1920 | 1985 | Polish | novelist, writer, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Tyrmand |
Mickey Duff | Mickey Duff | 1929 | 2014 | Polish | boxer, matchmaker, manager and promoter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Duff |
Leo Fuchs | Leo Fuchs | 1911 | 1994 | Polish | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Fuchs |
Krystyna Feldman | Krystyna Zofia Feldman | 1916 | 2007 | Polish | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Feldman |
Léopold Zborowski | Léopold Zborowski | 1889 | 1932 | Polish | poet, writer and art dealer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léopold_Zborowski |
Aleksander Bardini | Aleksander Bardini | 1913 | 1995 | Polish | theatre and opera director, actor, notable professor at the State Theatre School in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Bardini |
Jan Gotlib Bloch | Jan Gotlib (Bogumił) Bloch | 1836 | 1902 | Polish | banker and railway financier who devoted his private life to the study of modern industrial warfare | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gotlib_Bloch |
Stefan Askenase | Stefan Askenase | 1896 | 1985 | Polish | classical pianist and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Askenase |
Antoni Lange | Antoni Lange | 1863 | 1929 | Polish | poet, philosopher, polyglot (15 languages), writer, novelist, science-writer, reporter and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Lange |
Sarah Schenirer | Sarah Schenirer | 1883 | 1935 | Polish | Jewish schoolteacher who became a pioneer of Jewish education | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Schenirer |
George Zames | George Zames | 1934 | 1997 | Polish | control theorist and professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Zames |
Morris Michael Edelstein | Morris Michael Edelstein | 1888 | 1941 | Polish | Congressional Representative from the state of New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Michael_Edelstein |
Herman Lieberman | Herman Lieberman | 1870 | 1941 | Polish | lawyer and socialist politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lieberman |
Daniel I. Arnon | Daniel Israel Arnon | 1910 | 1994 | Polish | plant physiologist whose research led to greater insights into the operation of photosynthesis and nutrition in plants | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_I._Arnon |
Leon Sperling | Leon Sperling | 1900 | 1941 | Polish | Olympic footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Sperling |
Józef Klotz | Józef Klotz | 1900 | 1941 | Polish | footballer who played centre-half | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Klotz |
Adolf Lindenbaum | Adolf Lindenbaum | 1904 | 1941 | Polish | Jewish logician and mathematician best known for Lindenbaum's lemma and Lindenbaum–Tarski algebras | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Lindenbaum |
Jan A. Rajchman | Jan Aleksander Rajchman | 1911 | 1989 | Polish | electrical engineer and computer pioneer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_A._Rajchman |
Poldek Pfefferberg | Leopold "Poldek" Pfefferberg | 1913 | 2001 | Polish | Holocaust survivor who inspired the Australian writer Thomas Keneally to write the Booker prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark, which in turn was the basis for Steven Spielberg's critically acclaimed 1993 film Schindler's List | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poldek_Pfefferberg |
Ida Kamińska | Ida Kamińska | 1899 | 1980 | Polish | actress and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_Kamińska |
Ridley Haim Herschell | Ridley Haim Herschell | 1807 | 1864 | Polish | minister who converted from Judaism to evangelical Christianity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridley_Haim_Herschell |
Tamara Czartoryska | Princess Tamara Laura Czartoryska | 1978 | n/a | Polish | former model, television star, and aristocrat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Czartoryska |
Gene Gutowski | Witold Bardach | 1925 | 2016 | Polish | film producer who produced many of Roman Polanski's films, including Repulsion (1965), Cul-de-Sac (1966), The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967), and The Pianist (2002) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Gutowski |
Abram Blass | Moshe Aba Blass | 1896 | 1971 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Blass |
Ludwik Rajchman | Ludwik Witold Rajchman | 1881 | 1965 | Polish | physician and bacteriologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Rajchman |
Eddie Rosner | Adolph Ignatievich Rosner | 1910 | 1976 | Polish | jazz trumpeter sometimes called "The White Louis Armstrong" or "Polish Louis Armstrong" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rosner |
Abraham Nahum Stencl | Abraham Nahum Stencl | 1897 | 1983 | Polish | Yiddish poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Nahum_Stencl |
Casimir Oberfeld | Casimir Oberfeld | 1903 | 1945 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Oberfeld |
Józef Koffler | Józef Koffler | 1896 | n/a | Polish | composer, music teacher, musicologist and musical columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Koffler |
Stanisław Saks | Stanisław Saks | 1897 | 1942 | Polish | mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Saks |
Richard Burgin (violinist) | Richard Burgin | 1892 | 1981 | Polish | violinist, best known as associate conductor and the concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Burgin_(violinist) |
Krzysztof Kowalewski | Krzysztof Kowalewski | 1937 | 2021 | Polish | actor and comedian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Kowalewski |
Zygmunt Steuermann | Zygmunt Steuermann | 1899 | 1941 | Polish | footballer who played as a forward and is one of the most renowned members of the Hasmonea Lwów Football Club | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Steuermann |
Ludwik Gintel | Ludwik Gintel | 1899 | 1973 | Polish | Olympic footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Gintel |
Pesach Burstein | Pesach "Peishachke" Burstein | 1896 | 1986 | Polish | comedian, singer, coupletist, and director of Yiddish vaudeville/theater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesach_Burstein |
Casimir Lewy | Casimir Lewy | 1919 | 1991 | Polish | philosopher of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_Lewy |
Manfred Lachs | Manfred H. Lachs | 1914 | 1993 | Polish | diplomat, Judge of the International Court of Justice, and jurist who greatly influenced the development of international law after World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Lachs |
Paweł Finder | Paweł Finder | 1904 | 1944 | Polish | Communist leader and First Secretary of the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) from 1943 to 1944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paweł_Finder |
Josef Hassid | Josef Hassid | 1923 | 1950 | Polish | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Hassid |
Adam Ważyk | Adam Ważyk born Ajzyk Wagman | 1905 | 1982 | Polish | poet, essayist and writer born to a Jewish family in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Ważyk |
Katarzyna Weiglowa | Katarzyna Weiglowa (Wajglowa) | 1460 | 1539 | Polish | woman who was burned at the stake for apostasy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarzyna_Weiglowa |
Joseph Opatoshu | Joseph Opatoshu | 1886 | 1954 | Polish | Yiddish novelist and short story writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Opatoshu |
Aleksander Zederbaum | Aleksander Ossypovich Zederbaum | 1816 | 1893 | Polish | Jewish journalist who wrote primarily in Hebrew | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Zederbaum |
Kitty Hart-Moxon | Kitty Hart-Moxon, OBE | 1926 | n/a | Polish | Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Hart-Moxon |
Fanny Rabel | Fanny Rabel | 1922 | 2008 | Polish | artist who is considered to be the first modern female muralist and one of the youngest associated with the Mexican muralism of the early to mid 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Rabel |
Ya'akov Grundman | Ya'akov "Yankela" Grundman | 1939 | 2004 | Polish | Ashkenazi Israeli professional football player and manager | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ya'akov_Grundman |
Zishe Breitbart | Siegmund Breitbart | 1893 | 1925 | Polish | circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zishe_Breitbart |
Mina Bern | Mina Bern | 1911 | 2010 | Polish | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mina_Bern |
Henry Lowenfeld | Henry Lowenfeld in Polish, Henryk Loewenfeld | 1859 | 1931 | Polish | entrepreneur and theatrical impresario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lowenfeld |
Julian Stryjkowski | Julian Stryjkowski | 1905 | 1996 | Polish | journalist and writer, notable for his social prose of radical leftist leanings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Stryjkowski |
Nachman Aronszajn | Nachman Aronszajn | 1907 | 1980 | Polish | mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_Aronszajn |
Irving Saraf | Irving Saraf | 1932 | 2012 | Polish | film producer, film editor, film director and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Saraf |
Piotr Szulkin | Piotr Szulkin | 1950 | 2018 | Polish | film director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Szulkin |
Menachem Oren | Menachem Oren | 1903 | 1962 | Polish | chess player and mathematician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Oren |
Mojżesz Presburger | Mojżesz Presburger, or Prezburger | 1904 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish mathematician, logician, and philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojżesz_Presburger |
Anna Langfus | Anna Langfus | 1920 | 1966 | Polish | author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Langfus |
Jean Taubenhaus | Jean (Jan) Taubenhaus | 1850 | 1919 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Taubenhaus |
Jacob Glatstein | Jacob Glatstein | 1896 | 1971 | Polish | poet and literary critic who wrote in the Yiddish language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Glatstein |
Erwin Axer | Erwin Axer | 1917 | 2012 | Polish | theatre director, writer and university professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Axer |
Arthur Dunkelblum | Arthur Dunkelblum | 1906 | 1979 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Dunkelblum |
Henryk Gotlib | Henryk Gotlib | 1890 | 1966 | Polish | painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and writer, who settled in England during World War II and made a significant contribution to modern British art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Gotlib |
Eugeniusz Zak | Eugeniusz Zak | 1884 | 1926 | Polish | artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugeniusz_Zak |
Alexander Imich | Alexander Imich | 1903 | 2014 | Polish | chemist, parapsychologist, zoologist and writer who was the president of the Anomalous Phenomena Research Center in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Imich |
Ryszard Horowitz | Ryszard Horowitz | 1939 | n/a | Polish | photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Horowitz |
Jacob B. Agus | Jacob B. Agus | 1911 | 1986 | Polish | liberal Conservative rabbi and theologian who played a key role in the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_B._Agus |
Harry Schneiderman | Harry Schneiderman | 1885 | 1975 | Polish | Jewish-American communal administrator and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Schneiderman |
Robert Stiller | Robert Reuven Stiller | 1928 | 2016 | Polish | polyglot, writer, poet, translator, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stiller |
Rachel Korn | Rachel (Rokhl) Häring Korn | 1898 | 1982 | Polish | Yiddish language poet and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Korn |
Jakob Gimpel | Jakob Gimpel | 1906 | 1989 | Polish | concert pianist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Gimpel |
Henryka Łazowertówna | Henryka Łazowertówna | 1909 | 1942 | Polish | lyric poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryka_Łazowertówna |
Bernard Zakheim | Bernard Baruch Zakheim | 1898 | 1985 | Polish | San Francisco muralist, best known for his work on the Coit Tower murals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Zakheim |
Henryk Grynberg | Henryk Grynberg | 1936 | n/a | Polish | writer and actor who survived the Nazi occupation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Grynberg |
Michael Heilprin | Michael Heilprin | 1823 | 1888 | Polish | Jewish biblical scholar, critic, and writer, born at Piotrków, Russian Poland, to Jewish parents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Heilprin |
George Him | George Him | 1900 | 1982 | Polish | born British designer responsible for a number of notable posters, book illustrations and advertising campaigns for a wide range of clients | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Him |
Anna Komorowska | Anna Julia Komorowska | 1953 | n/a | Polish | classical philologist and former First Lady of Poland, as the wife of 5th President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Komorowska |
Adolf Beck (physiologist) | Adolf Beck | 1863 | 1942 | Polish | physician of and professor of physiology at the University of Lwów | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Beck_(physiologist) |
Gusta Dawidson Draenger | Gusta Dawidson Draenger, code name Justyna | 1917 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish activist in Kraków in the late 1930s and during the Nazi occupation in World War II. She wrote a detailed account of her activities while in Montelupich Prison in early 1943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gusta_Dawidson_Draenger |
Izaak Appel | Izaak (Isaak) Appel | 1905 | 1941 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak_Appel |
Ester Rachel Kamińska | Ester Rachel Kamińska née Halpern | 1870 | 1925 | Polish | Jewish actress, known as the mother of Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ester_Rachel_Kamińska |
Leon Kremer | Leon Kremer | 1901 | 1941 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kremer |
David Werdyger | David Werdyger | 1919 | 2014 | Polish | Hasidic Jewish hazzan and solo singer who was considered one of the pioneers of 20th-century Jewish music | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Werdyger |
Itshak Holtz | Itshak Jack Holtz | 1925 | 2018 | Polish | and an Israeli Orthodox Jewish painter, who is best known for his paintings and drawings that depict traditional scenes of Jewish life | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itshak_Holtz |
Aryeh Leib Malin | Aryeh Leib Malin | 1906 | 1962 | Polish | Haredi Jewish rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Mussarist who taught the Torah and spread rabbinical education in Europe, China, Japan, and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryeh_Leib_Malin |
Roman Kantor | Roman Józef Kantor | 1912 | 1943 | Polish | Olympic épée fencer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Kantor |
Franciszka Siedliska | Maria Franciszka Siedliska | 1842 | 1902 | Polish | Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszka_Siedliska |
Emanuel Schlechter | Emanuel Schlechter | 1904 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish artist, lyricist, screenwriter, librettist, writer, satirist, translator, composer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Schlechter |
Piotr Skrzynecki | Piotr Cezary Skrzynecki | 1930 | 1997 | Polish | choreographer, director and cabaret impresario, known for his involvement with the cabaret Piwnica pod Baranami (The Cellar under the Rams), of which he was the founder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Skrzynecki |
Samuel Hirszenberg | Samuel Hirszenberg | 1865 | 1908 | Polish | Jewish realist and later symbolist painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hirszenberg |
Jerzy Fitelberg | Jerzy Fitelberg | 1903 | 1951 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Fitelberg |
Felicja Blumental | Felicja Blumental | 1908 | 1991 | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicja_Blumental |
Teodor Parnicki | Teodor Parnicki | 1908 | 1988 | Polish | writer, notable for his historical novels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teodor_Parnicki |
Leopold Gottlieb | Leopold Gottlieb | 1879 | 1934 | Polish | Jewish modernist painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Gottlieb |
Adolf Rudnicki | Adolf Rudnicki | 1912 | 1990 | Polish | author and essayist, best known for his works about The Holocaust and the Jewish resistance in Poland during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Rudnicki |
Samuel Dickstein (mathematician) | Samuel Dickstein | 1851 | 1939 | Polish | mathematician of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Dickstein_(mathematician) |
Franciszka Arnsztajnowa | Franciszka Arnsztajnowa | 1865 | 1942 | Polish | poet, playwright, and translator of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszka_Arnsztajnowa |
Isaac Erter | Isaac Erter | 1792 | 1851 | Polish | Jewish satirist and poet of the Galician Haskalah | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Erter |
Léon Hollaenderski | Léon Hollaenderski | 1808 | 1878 | Polish | Jewish author, translator, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léon_Hollaenderski |
Enrico Glicenstein | Enrico Glicenstein | 1870 | 1942 | Polish | sculptor who lived in Italy and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Glicenstein |
Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg | Leopold Stanisław Kronenberg | 1812 | 1878 | Polish | banker, investor, and financier, and a leader of the 1863 January uprising against the Russian Empire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Stanisław_Kronenberg |
Helen Schamroth | Helena Jeannette Schamroth | null | null | Polish | craft artist and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Schamroth |
Samuel Factor | Samuel ("S. D.") Factor (Faktor) | 1883 | 1949 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Factor |
Lawrence Lipton | Lawrence Lipton | 1898 | 1975 | Polish | Jewish journalist, writer, and Beat poet, as well as the father of James Lipton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Lipton |
Max Théon | Max Théon | 1848 | 1927 | Polish | Jewish Kabbalist and Occultist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Théon |
Gersz Rotlewi | Gersz (Georg, George, Gersh) Rotlewi | 1889 | 1920 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gersz_Rotlewi |
Jerzy Wasowski | Jerzy Ryszard Wasowski | 1913 | 1984 | Polish | acoustics engineer, radio announcer, composer, pianist, actor and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Wasowski |
Maurice Frydman | Maurice Frydman | 1901 | 1976 | Polish | Jew who subsequently converted to Hinduism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Frydman |
Abe Coleman | Abe Kelmer / Abba Kelmer | 1905 | 2007 | Polish | professional wrestler, promoter and referee, known by the ring names Abe Coleman, Hebrew Hercules, and Jewish Tarzan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Coleman |
Aleksander Lesser | Aleksander Lesser | 1814 | 1884 | Polish | painter, illustrator, sketch artist, art critic, and amateur researcher of antiquities who was of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Lesser |
Joseph Szydlowski | Joseph Szydlowski (originally Józef Szydłowski; November 21, 1896, Skryhiczyn | 1896 | n/a | Polish | aircraft engine designer who founded Turbomeca in France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Szydlowski |
Ludwik Margules | Ludwik Margules Coben | 1933 | 2006 | Polish | theatre, opera and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Margules |
Samuel Klein (businessman) | Samuel Klein | 1923 | 2014 | Polish | business magnate and philanthropist who founded the Casas Bahia chain of department stores in Brazil, building them into the top retailer in the country | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Klein_(businessman) |
Frumka Płotnicka | Frumka Płotnicka | 1914 | 1943 | Polish | resistance fighter during World War II; activist of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ŻOB) and member of the Labour Zionist organization Dror | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumka_Płotnicka |
Israel Isaac Kahanovitch | Israel Isaac Kahanovitch | 1872 | 1945 | Polish | Orthodox Jewish rabbi who served as Chief Rabbi of Winnipeg and Western Canada for nearly 40 years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Isaac_Kahanovitch |
Pinchas Hirschprung | Pinchas Hirschprung | 1912 | 1998 | Polish | rabbi, posek, and rosh yeshiva, who served as Chief Rabbi of Montreal from 1969 until his death | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchas_Hirschprung |
Jacob Avigdor | Rabbi Dr. Yaakov Avigdor | 1896 | 1967 | Polish | rabbi, author and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Avigdor |
Oswald Rufeisen | Shmuel Oswald Rufeisen | 1922 | 1998 | Polish | Jew who survived the Nazi invasion of his homeland, in the course of which he converted to Christianity, becoming a Catholic and a friar of the Discalced Carmelite Order | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Rufeisen |
Maria Kalergis | Maria Kalergis von Nesselrode-Ereshoven | 1822 | 1874 | Polish | noblewoman, pianist, salon hostess and patron of the arts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Kalergis |
Juliusz Wertheim | Juliusz Edward Wertheim | 1880 | 1928 | Polish | pianist, conductor and composer, a member of a prominent family, who had a significant influence on the career of Arthur Rubinstein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Wertheim |
Ludwik Gross | Ludwik Gross | 1904 | 1999 | Polish | virologist who discovered two different tumor viruses, murine leukemia virus and mouse polyomavirus, capable of causing cancers in laboratory mice | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Gross |
Simhah Pinsker | Simhah Pinsker | 1801 | 1864 | Polish | Jewish scholar and archeologist born at Tarnopol, Galicia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simhah_Pinsker |
Tobias Cohn | Tobias Cohn or Tobias Kohn | null | null | Polish | Jewish physician of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Cohn |
Leon Pasternak | Leon Pasternak | 1910 | n/a | Polish | poet and satirist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Pasternak |
Andrzej Włast | Andrzej Włast | 1885 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Włast |
Juliusz Bardach | Juliusz Bardach | 1914 | 2010 | Polish | legal historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Bardach |
Ludwik Starski | Ludwik Starski | 1903 | 1984 | Polish | Jewish lyricist, sound engineer and screenwriter of the twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Starski |
Szlama Ber Winer | Szlama Ber Winer, nom de guerre Yakov (Ya'akov) Grojanowski | 1911 | none | Polish | Jew from Izbica Kujawska, who escaped from the Chełmno extermination camp during the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlama_Ber_Winer |
Hilda Eisen | Hilda Eisen | 1917 | 2017 | Polish | businessperson, philanthropist, and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Eisen |
Pinchas Kehati | Pinchas Kehati | 1910 | 1976 | Polish | rabbi, teacher, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchas_Kehati |
Józef Hen | Józef Hen | 1923 | n/a | Polish | novelist, essayist, playwright, screenwriter, and reporter of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Hen |
Lucjan Dobroszycki | Lucjan Dobroszycki | 1925 | 1995 | Polish | scientist and historian specializing in modern Polish-Jewish history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucjan_Dobroszycki |
Józef Schreier | Józef Schreier | 1909 | 1943 | Polish | mathematician of Jewish origin, known for his work in functional analysis, group theory and combinatorics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Schreier |
Isaac Satanow | Isaac Satanow | null | null | Polish | Jewish maskil, scholar, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Satanow |
Arnold Walfisz | Arnold Walfisz | 1892 | 1962 | Polish | Jewish mathematician working in analytic number theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Walfisz |
Mieczysław Jastrun | Mieczysław Jastrun born Mojsze Agatstein | 1903 | 1983 | Polish | poet and essayist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Jastrun |
Herman Kruk | Herman Kruk | 1897 | 1944 | Polish | Jewish librarian and Bundist activist who kept a diary recording his experiences in the Vilna Ghetto during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Kruk |
Tadeusz Peiper | Tadeusz Peiper | 1891 | 1969 | Polish | poet, art critic, theoretician of literature and one of the precursors of the avant-garde movement in Polish poetry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Peiper |
Stanisław Kohn | Stanisław Kohn | 1895 | 1940 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Kohn |
Pola Nirenska | Pola Nirenska | 1910 | 1992 | Polish | performer of modern dance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pola_Nirenska |
Adam Pragier | Adam Szymon Pragier | 1886 | 1976 | Polish | economist, Doctor of Jurisprudence professor at the Free Polish University, socialist activist, politician, member of the Polish Legions and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Pragier |
Raquel Liberman | Raquel Liberman | 1900 | 1935 | Polish | immigrant to Argentina, a victim of human trafficking | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raquel_Liberman |
Moshe Wilensky | Moshe Wilensky | 1910 | 1997 | Polish | composer, lyricist, and pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Wilensky |
Irene Lieblich | Irene Lieblich | 1923 | 2008 | Polish | artist and Holocaust survivor noted for illustrating the books of Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer and for her paintings highlighting Jewish life and culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Lieblich |
Joseph Bau | Joseph Bau | 1920 | 2002 | Polish | artist, philosopher, inventor, animator, comedian, commercial creator, copy-writer, poet, and survivor of the Płaszów concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bau |
Johan Kemper | Johan Christian Jacob Kemper | 1670 | 1716 | Polish | Sabbatean Jew who converted from Judaism to Lutheran Christianity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Kemper |
Alicia Appleman-Jurman | Alicia Appleman-Jurman | 1930 | 2017 | Polish | memoirist, born in Rosulna, Poland (present-day Rosilna, Ukraine), who has written and spoken about her experiences of the Holocaust in her autobiography, Alicia: My Story | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Appleman-Jurman |
Leon Feiner | Leon Feiner | 1885 | 1945 | Polish | Jewish lawyer, an activist of the General Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and between November 1944 and January 1945 the director (prezes) and vice-chairman of the Council to Aid Jews "Żegota" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Feiner |
Noach Pryłucki | Noach (Nojach) Pryłucki | 1882 | 1941 | Polish | Jewish politician from the Folkspartei | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noach_Pryłucki |
Ryszard Schnepf | Ryszard Marian Schnepf | null | null | Polish | politician and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Schnepf |
Edward Gerstenfeld | Edward (Eduard) Issakovich Gerstenfeld | 1915 | 1943 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gerstenfeld |
Adrienne Górska | Adrienne Górska | 1899 | 1969 | Polish | architect who worked in the Modernist and Art Deco styles in Paris between the world wars | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Górska |
Jan Smeterlin | Jan Smeterlin | 1892 | 1967 | Polish | concert pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Smeterlin |
Chaim Levanon | Chaim Levanon | 1899 | 1986 | Polish | politician and mayor of Tel Aviv between 13 April 1953 and 1959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Levanon |
Kazimierz Łaski | Kazimierz Łaski | 1921 | 2015 | Polish | economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Łaski |
Itche Goldberg | Itche Goldberg | 1904 | 2006 | Polish | Yiddish language writer of children's books, poet, librettist, educator, literary critic, camp director, publisher, fundraiser, essayist, literary editor, Yiddish language and culture scholar, and left-wing political activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itche_Goldberg |
Rajzel Żychlińsky | Rajzel Żychlińsky | 1910 | 2001 | Polish | writer of poetry in Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajzel_Żychlińsky |
Max Factor (person) | Maksymilian Faktorowicz | 1877 | 1938 | Polish | businessman, beautician, entrepreneur and inventor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Factor_(person) |
Stefania Jabłońska | Stefania Jabłońska | 1920 | 2017 | Polish | physician and professor specializing in dermatology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Jabłońska |
Jan Henryk de Rosen | Jan Henryk de Rosen | 1891 | 1982 | Polish | painter and patriot, who created mural and mosaic works, in exile and active in the United States after 1939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Henryk_de_Rosen |
Fayga Ostrower | Fayga Perla Ostrower | 1920 | 2001 | Polish | engraver, painter, designer, illustrator, art theorist and university professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayga_Ostrower |
Henryk Kuna | Henryk Kuna | 1885 | 1945 | Polish | sculptor, active in the early twentieth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Kuna |
Solomon J. Buchsbaum | Solomon J. Buchsbaum | 1929 | 1993 | Polish | physicist and technologist, best known as chair of the White House Science Council under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and as a senior executive at Bell Laboratories | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_J._Buchsbaum |
Natalia Karp | Natalia Karp | 1911 | 2007 | Polish | concert pianist and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Karp |
Joseph Wilf | Joseph Wilf | 1925 | 2016 | Polish | businessman, Holocaust survivor, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wilf |
Willy Rozenbaum | Willy Rozenbaum | 1945 | n/a | Polish | physician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Rozenbaum |
Miriam Akavia | Miriam Akavia also Matylda Weinfeld | 1927 | 2015 | Polish | writer and translator, a Holocaust survivor, and the president of the Platform for Jewish-Polish Dialogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Akavia |
Benjamin Wolf Löw | Benjamin Wolf Löw | 1775 | 1851 | Polish | rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Wolf_Löw |
André Charpak | André Charpak | 1928 | 2006 | Polish | actor, dialoguist, film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Charpak |
Marya Freund | Marya Freund | 1876 | 1966 | Polish | soprano | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marya_Freund |
Aaron Walden | Aaron Walden | 1835 | 1912 | Polish | Jewish Talmudist, editor, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Walden |
Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski | Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski | 1901 | 1964 | Polish | physicist, book author and businessman of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Weissberg-Cybulski |
Joanna Olczak-Ronikier | Joanna Olczak-Roniker | 1934 | n/a | Polish | writer and scenarist, co-founder of the Piwnica pod Baranami cabaret in Kraków | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Olczak-Ronikier |
Róża Etkin-Moszkowska | Róża Etkin | 1908 | 1945 | Polish | pianist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Róża_Etkin-Moszkowska |
Zygmunt Turkow | Zygmunt Turkow | 1896 | 1970 | Polish | actor, director, playwright and director of Jewish origin from Warsaw, who became famous for roles in the pre-war Jewish films and stage plays in Yiddish | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Turkow |
Sydor Rey | Sydor Rey born Izydor Reiss | 1908 | 1979 | Polish | poet and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydor_Rey |
Henio Zytomirski | Henio Zytomirski | 1933 | 1942 | Polish | Jew born in Lublin, Poland, who was murdered at the age of 9 in a gas chamber at Majdanek concentration camp during the German Nazi occupation of Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henio_Zytomirski |
Ary Abramovich Sternfeld | Ary Sternfeld | 1905 | 1980 | Polish | engineer of Jewish origin, who studied in Poland and France | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ary_Abramovich_Sternfeld |
Nathan Shapell | Nathan Shapell | 1922 | 2007 | Polish | survivor of The Holocaust, as well as a real estate developer whose Shapell Industries was one of the largest real estate companies in California; he was also a philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Shapell |
Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof | Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof | 1925 | 2019 | Polish | civil and marine engineer, specializing in the design of structural steel and concrete construction | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Christophe_Zaleski-Zamenhof |
Haim Hanani | Haim Hanani | none | 1991 | Polish | mathematician, known for his contributions to combinatorial design theory, in particular for the theory of pairwise balanced designs and for the proof of an existence theorem for Steiner quadruple systems | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Hanani |
Jan Hartman (philosopher) | Jan Marek Hartman | 1967 | n/a | Polish | philosopher specializing in bioethics, writer, opinion journalist and politician, professor of the humanities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hartman_(philosopher) |
Ossip Klarwein | Ossip (Yosef) Klarwein | 1893 | 1970 | Polish | architect who designed many works in Germany and Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossip_Klarwein |
Leopold Pilichowski | Leopold Pilichowski | 1869 | 1933 | Polish | realist painter in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, active during the final years of the foreign partitions of Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Pilichowski |
Wiera Gran | Wiera Gran, real name Dwojra Grynberg | 1916 | 2007 | Polish | singer and actress of Jewish ancestry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiera_Gran |
Kasia Adamik | Katarzyna "Kasia" Adamik | 1972 | n/a | Polish | director and storyboard artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasia_Adamik |
David Faber (author) | David Faber | 1928 | 2015 | Polish | Jew who survived nine concentration camps in occupied Poland and Nazi Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Faber_(author) |
Eva Rubinstein | Eva Rubinstein | 1933 | n/a | Polish | photographer whose artistic works present portraits, nudes and interiors, often taken in Europe as well as the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Rubinstein |
Shimon Ratner | Shimon Ratner | null | null | Polish | football player and coach, who coached the Mandatory Palestine national football team in 1934, taking control of them for their first ever match during the 1934 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Ratner |
Samuel Goldflam | Samuel Wulfowicz Goldflam | 1852 | 1932 | Polish | Jewish neurologist best known for his brilliant 1893 analysis of myasthenia gravis (Erb-Goldflam syndrome) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldflam |
Kazimierz Krukowski | Kazimierz Krukowski | 1901 | 1984 | Polish | cabaret performer and writer, revue and film actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Krukowski |
Saul Raphael Landau | Saul Raphael | 1870 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish lawyer, journalist, publicist and Zionist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Raphael_Landau |
Magdalena Łazarkiewicz | Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, née Holland | 1954 | n/a | Polish | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Łazarkiewicz |
Juliusz Kühl | Juliusz Kühl also known as Julius | 1913 | 1985 | Polish | diplomat, Holocaust rescuer and – after the World War II – Canadian construction businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliusz_Kühl |
Daniel Singer (journalist) | Daniel Singer | 1926 | 2000 | Polish | socialist writer and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Singer_(journalist) |
Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig | Helen Jonas-Rosenzweig | 1925 | 2018 | Polish | Holocaust survivor who was interned during World War II at the Płaszów concentration camp where she was forced to work as a maid for SS camp commandant Amon Göth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Jonas-Rosenzweig |
Moshe Rosen (Nezer HaKodesh) | Rabbi Moshe Rosen | 1870 | 1957 | Polish | Orthodox rabbi who befriended the Chazon Ish while serving as a rabbi in Lithuania and later became a well respected Torah scholar in the United States of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Rosen_(Nezer_HaKodesh) |
Phillip Blashki | Phillip Blashki | 1837 | 1916 | Polish | immigrant to Australia who rose to be a successful businessman, magistrate, JP, holder of many positions of public responsibility and associated with numerous community and charitable events in Melbourne | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Blashki |
Sigmund Strochlitz | Sigmund Strochlitz | 1916 | 2006 | Polish | Jewish entrepreneur, political activist, and Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Strochlitz |
Tova Berlinski | Tova Berlinski | 1915 | 2022 | Polish | painter who was considered to be a doyenne of the painting community in Jerusalem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tova_Berlinski |
Wiktor Eckhaus | Wiktor Eckhaus | 1930 | 2000 | Polish | mathematician, known for his work on the field of differential equations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktor_Eckhaus |
Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum | Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum | 1903 | 2000 | Polish | mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Wilhelm_Birnbaum |
Fredda Brilliant | Fredda Brilliant | 1903 | 1999 | Polish | sculptor and actress, born in Łódź, Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredda_Brilliant |
Morris Jastrow Jr. | Morris Jastrow Jr. | 1861 | 1921 | Polish | orientalist and librarian associated with the University of Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Jastrow_Jr. |
Stanisław Piasecki | Stanisław Piasecki | 1900 | 1941 | Polish | right-wing activist, politician and journalist of partially Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Piasecki |
Marian Filar (pianist) | Marian Filar | 1917 | 2012 | Polish | concert pianist and virtuoso composer living in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Filar_(pianist) |
Ethel Rosenfield | Ethel Rosenfield | 1910 | 2000 | Polish | sculptor who lived in Montreal, Quebec | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel_Rosenfield |
Maurycy Orzech | Maurycy Orzech | 2004 | 312 | Polish | Jewish economist, journalist, politician and a leader of the Jewish Bund in interwar Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Orzech |
Sara Topelson de Grinberg | Sara Topelson de Grinberg | 1945 | n/a | Polish | architect | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Topelson_de_Grinberg |
Haim Nathan Dembitzer | Haim Nathan Dembitzer | 1820 | 1820 | Polish | rabbi and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haim_Nathan_Dembitzer |
Frans Krajcberg | Frans Krajcberg | 1921 | 2017 | Polish | painter, sculptor, engraver and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Krajcberg |
Rafał Taubenschlag | Rafał Taubenschlag | 1881 | 1958 | Polish | historian of law, a specialist in Roman law and papyrology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafał_Taubenschlag |
Józef Lustgarten | Józef Lustgarten | 1889 | 1973 | Polish | Jewish footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Lustgarten |
Bolesław Kon | Bolesław Kon | 1906 | 1936 | Polish | concert pianist who won international acclaim in his brief career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolesław_Kon |
Moses Margoliouth | Moses Margoliouth | 1820 | 1881 | Polish | scholar and Jewish convert to Christianity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Margoliouth |
Stanisław Kronenberg | Stanisław Leopold Kronenberg | 1846 | 1894 | Polish | financier | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Kronenberg |
Zew Wawa Morejno | Zew Wawa Morejno | 1916 | 2011 | Polish | rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zew_Wawa_Morejno |
Leon Schwartzmann | Leon Schwartzmann | 1887 | 1942 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Schwartzmann |
Henri Hayden | Henri Hayden | 1883 | 1970 | Polish | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Hayden |
Achilles Frydman | Achilles Frydman | 1904 | 1940 | Polish | chess player | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_Frydman |
Aleksander Hertz | Aleksander Hertz | 1879 | 1928 | Polish | film producer and director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Hertz |
Jonasz Kofta | Jonasz Kofta, real name: Janusz Kofta | 1942 | 1988 | Polish | songwriter and a poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonasz_Kofta |
Sidney Stanley | Sidney (or Sydney) Stanley | 1899 | 1905 | Polish | émigré to the UK who became a dubious businessman of precarious ethics before claiming to be a contact man, able to influence politicians and civil servants in return for cash bribes, claims that led to a great scandal and investigation by the Lynskey tribunal of 1948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Stanley |
Benny Goldberg | Benny Goldberg | 1918 | 2001 | Polish | bantamweight boxer and a top rated contender for the Bantamweight title for a five-year stretch in the 1940s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goldberg |
Franciszek Zachara | Franciszek Zachara | null | null | Polish | pianist and composer who concertized extensively throughout Europe in the years leading up to 1928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciszek_Zachara |
Julius Eisenstein | Julius (Judah David) Eisenstein | 1854 | 1956 | Polish | Jewish-American anthologist, diarist, encyclopedist, Hebraist, historian, philanthropist, and Orthodox polemicist born in Międzyrzec Podlaski (known in Yiddish as Mezritch d'Lita), a town with a large Jewish majority in what was then Congress Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Eisenstein |
Anita Lobel | Anita Lobel | 1934 | n/a | Polish | illustrator of children's books, including On Market Street, written by her husband Arnold Lobel and a Caldecott Honor Book for illustration, A New Coat for Anna, Alison's Zinnia, and This Quiet Lady | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Lobel |
Sabina Zimering | Sabina Zimering | 1923 | 2021 | Polish | ophthalmologist and memoirist known for sharing her experiences during the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabina_Zimering |
Magda Umer | Magda Umer | 1949 | n/a | Polish | singer and performer of sung poetry, journalist, author, film director, screenwriter, actress, and author of recitals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Umer |
Abraham Silberschein | Adolf Henryk Silberschein | 1882 | 1951 | Polish | Jewish lawyer, activist of the World Jewish Congress, Zionist, member of the Polish Sejm (1922–27) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Silberschein |
Jakub Wygodzki | Jakub Wygodzki | 1856 | n/a | Polish | Jewish politician, Zionist activist and a medical doctor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Wygodzki |
William Ungar | William Ungar | 1913 | 2013 | Polish | author, philanthropist, Holocaust survivor, and founder of the National Envelope Corporation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ungar |
Leo Rosner | Leopold Rosner | 1918 | 2008 | Polish | musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Rosner |
Ostap Ortwin | Ostap Ortwin | 1876 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish journalist and literary critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostap_Ortwin |
Nate Mack | Nathan Mack | 1891 | 1965 | Polish | banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate_Mack |
Agnieszka Graff | Agnieszka Graff | 1970 | n/a | Polish | writer, translator, commentator, feminist and women's and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Graff |
Simon Pullman | Simon Pullman | 1890 | 1942 | Polish | violinist, conductor, music teacher and founder and Director of the Pullman Ensemble and Orchestra, and a seminal figure in the evolution of chamber music performance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Pullman |
Abraham Stern (inventor) | Abraham Jacob Stern | 1762 | 1769 | Polish | Jewish maskil, inventor, educator, and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Stern_(inventor) |
Simon Rawidowicz | Simon Rawidowicz | 1897 | 1957 | Polish | Jewish philosopher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rawidowicz |
Daniel Passent | Daniel Passent | 1938 | 2022 | Polish | journalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Passent |
Józef Wittlin | Józef Wittlin | 1896 | 1976 | Polish | novelist, poet and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Wittlin |
Jan Deutsch | Jan Ginter Deutsch | 1935 | 2016 | Polish | philosopher and legal scholar best known for his work on the philosophy of corporate law, jurisprudence, and the cultural underpinnings of capitalist democracy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Deutsch |
Pessah Bar-Adon | Pessah Bar-Adon | 1907 | 1985 | Polish | archaeologist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessah_Bar-Adon |
Richard Krygier | Henry Richard Krygier OBE | 1917 | 1986 | Polish | Jewish anti-communist publisher and journalist, and a founder of Quadrant magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Krygier |
Leopold Julian Kronenberg | Baron Leopold Julian Kronenberg | 1849 | 1937 | Polish | banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Julian_Kronenberg |
Theodore S. Hamerow | Theodore Stephen Hamerow | 1920 | 2013 | Polish | historian, focusing on modern history, especially German history of the 19th and 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_S._Hamerow |
Jan Rosen | Jan Bogumił Rosen | 1854 | 1936 | Polish | painter of Jewish ancestry, known primarily for his battle scenes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rosen |
Dawid Daniuszewski | Dawid Daniuszewski | 1885 | 1944 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawid_Daniuszewski |
Stefan Staszewski | Stefan Staszewski | 1906 | 1989 | Polish | communist politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Staszewski |
Ludwik Finkel | Ludwik Michał Emanuel Finkel | 1858 | 1930 | Polish | historian, and rector of the Lviv University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Finkel |
Władysław Kopaliński | Władysław Kopaliński | 1907 | 2007 | Polish | lexicographer, publisher, writer and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Kopaliński |
Henryk Lipszyc | Henryk Lipszyc | 1941 | n/a | Polish | scientist of Jewish ancestry, specialist in Japanese culture, theatre and a translator from Japanese | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Lipszyc |
Stanislaus Sittenfeld | Stanislaus Sittenfeld | 1865 | 1902 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaus_Sittenfeld |
Henryk Pogorieły | Henryk Pogorieły | 1908 | 1943 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Pogorieły |
Henryk Szaro | Henryk Szaro | 1900 | 1942 | Polish | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Szaro |
Adam Zamenhof | Adam Zamenhof | 1888 | 1940 | Polish | physician known for his work on ophthalmology and the son of L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Zamenhof |
Łucja Frey | Łucja Frey or Łucja Frey-Gottesman | 1889 | 1942 | Polish | physician and neurologist, known for describing the syndrome later named after her | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Łucja_Frey |
Hillel Katz | Hillel Katz | 1905 | n/a | Polish | Jewish Communist, who was an important member of a Soviet espionage network in occupied France, that the German Abwehr intelligence service later called the "Red Orchestra" ("Rote Kapelle") | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_Katz |
Józef Feldman | Józef Feldman | 1899 | 1946 | Polish | historian of Jewish ethnicity, professor of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Feldman |
Jan Le Witt | Jan Le Witt | 1907 | 1991 | Polish | abstract artist, graphic designer and illustrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Le_Witt |
Rywka Lipszyc | Rywka Bajla Lipszyc | 1929 | 1945 | Polish | Jewish teenage girl who wrote a personal diary while in the Łódź Ghetto during the Holocaust in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rywka_Lipszyc |
Arthur Felix | Arthur Felix, FRS | 1887 | 1956 | Polish | microbiologist and serologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Felix |
Ruth Posner | Ruth Posner | 1933 | n/a | Polish | Holocaust survivor, former dancer and choreographer and is today an actress and a former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Posner |
Simon Laks | Simon (Szymon) Laks | 1901 | 1983 | Polish | Jewish composer and violinist, who became head of the prisoners' orchestra at Birkenau-Auschwitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Laks |
Sigismund Danielewicz | Sigismund Danielewicz | 1847 | 1927 | Polish | labor organizer in San Francisco | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_Danielewicz |
Lydia Sarfati | Lydia Sarfati | null | null | Polish | esthetician, entrepreneur, consultant and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Sarfati |
Maryla Jonas | Maryla Jonas | 1911 | 1959 | Polish | classical pianist, who escaped Nazism to settle in Brazil and later the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryla_Jonas |
Rose Tobias Shaw | Rose Tobias Shaw | 1919 | 2015 | Polish | casting director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Tobias_Shaw |
Samuel Adalberg | Samuel Adalberg | 1868 | 1939 | Polish | historian of folklore, literature, a paremiologist and a state official | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Adalberg |
Henech Kon | Henech Kon or Henryk Kon | 1890 | 1972 | Polish | composer and cabaret performer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henech_Kon |
Henryk Berlewi | Henryk Berlewi | 1894 | 1967 | Polish | painter, graphic designer and art theorist, who is primarily remembered as an abstract artist who paved the way for optical art, but he was also an important figure in Yiddish book design and typography in the early 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Berlewi |
Mira Fuchrer | Mira Fuchrer | 1920 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish activist of the Jewish resistance movement in the Warsaw Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II; member of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), and fighter in Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Fuchrer |
Zygmunt Białostocki | Zygmunt Białostocki | 1897 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish musician and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Białostocki |
Ignacy Sachs | Ignacy Sachs | 1927 | n/a | Polish | economist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Sachs |
Józef Lewartowski | Józef Lewartowski | 1895 | 1942 | Polish | communist politician of Jewish origin, revolutionary, member of the KPP and PPR one of the first organizers of the Jewish resistance in Nazi occupied Poland, co-founder of the Anti-Fascist Bloc | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Lewartowski |
Vitka Kempner | Vitka Kempner | 1920 | 2012 | Polish | Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Rozka Korczak and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitka_Kempner |
Jan Czyński | Jan Kazimierz Czyński | 1801 | 1867 | Polish | independence activist, lawyer by education, writer and publicist, fighter for the emancipation of the Jews, trade supporter, utopian socialist, and radical democrat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Czyński |
Zuzanna Shonfield | Zuzanna Shonfield | 1919 | 2000 | Polish | writer and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuzanna_Shonfield |
Gołda Tencer | Gołda Tencer | 1949 | n/a | Polish | actress and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gołda_Tencer |
Seymour Rexite | Seymour Rexite | 1908 | 2002 | Polish | singer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Rexite |
Maksymilian Fajans | Maksymilian Fajans | 1827 | 1890 | Polish | artist, lithographer and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksymilian_Fajans |
Severin Eisenberger | Severin Eisenberger | 1879 | 1945 | Polish | concert pianist, composer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severin_Eisenberger |
Stacha Halpern | Stanislav "Stacha" Halpern | 1919 | 1969 | Polish | painter and sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacha_Halpern |
Jakub Kolski | Jakub (Josek) Kolski | 1899 | 1941 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Kolski |
Marcin Meller | Marcin Meller | 1968 | n/a | Polish | historian, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Polish edition of Playboy magazine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcin_Meller |
Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli | Samson ben Pesah Ostropoli | 1648 | n/a | Polish | rabbi from Ostropol who was martyred at Polonnoye, Volhynia, during the Khmelnytsky Uprising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_ben_Pesah_Ostropoli |
Zdzisław Belsitzmann | Zdzisław Belsitzmann | 1890 | 1920 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zdzisław_Belsitzmann |
Ewa Kuryluk | Ewa Kuryluk | 1946 | n/a | Polish | artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewa_Kuryluk |
Jakub Chlebowski | Jakub Chlebowski or Jakob Chlebowski | 1905 | 1969 | Polish | Jewish professor and doctor, who was Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of the Medical Academy in Bialystok, Poland (now the Medical University of Bialystok) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Chlebowski |
Helen Kleinbort Krauze | Helen Kleinbort Krauze | null | null | Polish | Jewish journalist who worked for over five decades as an interviewer, features and travel writer and columnist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Kleinbort_Krauze |
Romek Marber | Romek Marber | 1925 | 2020 | Polish | graphic designer and academic known for his work illustrating the covers of Penguin Books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romek_Marber |
Yaakov Malkin | Yaakov Malkin | 1926 | 2019 | Polish | educator, literary critic, and professor emeritus in the Faculty of Arts at Tel Aviv University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaakov_Malkin |
Edmond Wilhelm Brillant | Edmond Wilhelm Brillant Halevi | 1916 | 2004 | Polish | naval architect and one of the founding fathers of the Israeli navy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Wilhelm_Brillant |
Abraham Blum | Abraham Blum | 1905 | n/a | Polish | Jewish socialist activist, one of the leaders of the Bund in the Warsaw Ghetto and a participant in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Blum |
Rose Mandel | Rose Mandel | 1910 | 2002 | Polish | photographer, who was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Mandel |
Eliezer Gruenbaum | Eliezer Grynbaum or Eliezer Gruenbaum | 1908 | 1948 | Polish | Jewish communist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Gruenbaum |
Samuel Peltyn | Samuel Zvi Hirsh "Henryk" Peltyn | 1831 | 1896 | Polish | Jewish writer, translator, and publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Peltyn |
Zofia Kuratowska | Zofia Kuratowska | 1931 | 1999 | Polish | doctor, politician, and diplomat of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Kuratowska |
Filip Friedman | Filip (Philip) Friedman | 1901 | 1960 | Polish | Jewish historian and the author of several books on history and economics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Friedman |
Yakov Doletsky | Yakov Genrikhovich Doletsky | 1888 | 1937 | Polish | revolutionary and long-serving head of the Soviet news agency TASS. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Doletsky |
David Beigelman | David Beigelman | 1887 | 1945 | Polish | violinist, orchestra leader, and composer of Yiddish theatre music and songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beigelman |
Debora Vogel | Debora Vogel | 1902 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish philosopher and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debora_Vogel |
Shlomo Dykman | Shlomo Dykman | 1917 | 1965 | Polish | translator and classical scholar | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Dykman |
Emanuel Tanay | Emanuel Tanay | 1928 | 2014 | Polish | physician, a forensic psychiatrist, and a Jewish Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Tanay |
David Blis | David Blis | 1872 | 1942 | Polish | Jew, who emigrated to the Americas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Blis |
Adam Aston | Adam Aston | 1902 | 1993 | Polish | singer, actor, and pianist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Aston |
Marcus Sachs | Marcus Sachs | 1812 | 1869 | Polish | Jew who emigrated to Scotland and became Professor of Hebrew at the Free Church Divinity Hall in Aberdeen (later known as Christ's College | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Sachs |
Michel Adam Lisowski | Michel Adam Lisowski | null | null | Polish | businessman and the founder and sole owner of Fashion TV. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Adam_Lisowski |
Artur Sandauer | Artur Sandauer | 1913 | 1989 | Polish | and Jewish literary critic, essayist and professor at the University of Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Sandauer |
Esther Nisenthal Krinitz | Esther Nisenthal Krinitz | 1927 | 2001 | Polish | Jewish artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Nisenthal_Krinitz |
Alina Margolis-Edelman | Alina Margolis-Edelman | 1922 | 2008 | Polish | physician, Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who was forced to flee Poland during a revival of anti-Semitism in Poland in 1968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Margolis-Edelman |
Stefanie Horovitz | Stefanie Horovitz | 1887 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish chemist known for experimental work proving the existence of isotopes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefanie_Horovitz |
George O. Zimmerman | George Ogurek Zimmerman | 1935 | 2019 | Polish | scientist, researcher, inventor, professor of physics and physics department chair at Boston University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_O._Zimmerman |
Jack J. Grynberg | Jack J. Grynberg | 1932 | 2021 | Polish | businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_J._Grynberg |
Eugénie Ginsberg | Eugénie Ginsberg or Eugénie Ginsberg-Blaustein | 1905 | 1944 | Polish | philosopher and psychologist noted for her works on descriptive psychology and her analysis of existential dependence, independence, and related concepts as applied in the area of psychology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugénie_Ginsberg |
Gela Seksztajn | Gela Seksztajn | 1907 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish artist and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gela_Seksztajn |
Antoni Libera | Antoni Libera | 1949 | n/a | Polish | writer, translator, literary critic, and theater director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_Libera |
Józef Sandel | Józef Sandel | 1894 | 1962 | Polish | Jewish art historian and critic, an art dealer and collector, and an advocate on behalf of Jewish artists in postwar Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Sandel |
Stefania Grodzieńska | Stefania Grodzieńska | 1914 | 2010 | Polish | writer, stage and theatrical actress during the Interbellum; dancer, radio announcer, and satirist known as the First Lady of Polish Humor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefania_Grodzieńska |
Rena Kornreich Gelissen | Rena Kornreich Gelissen | 1920 | 2006 | Polish | Jew, known for her memoir, Rena's Promise: A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz, her story of surviving the Nazi concentration camps with her sister Danka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rena_Kornreich_Gelissen |
Czesław Mordowicz | Czesław Mordowicz | 1919 | 2001 | Polish | Jew who, with Arnošt Rosin, escaped from the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland on 27 May 1944, at the height of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Mordowicz |
Lionel S. Reiss | Lionel S. Reiss | 1894 | 1988 | Polish | Jewish painter born in Jaroslaw, Poland, and grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where he studied commercial art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_S._Reiss |
Leon Bibel | Leon Bibel | 1913 | 1995 | Polish | painter and printmaker during the Great Depression | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Bibel |
Sabine Zlatin | Sabine Zlatin | 1907 | 1996 | Polish | Jewishwoman who hid Jewish children during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine_Zlatin |
Szymon Szurmiej | Szymon Symcha Szurmiej | 1923 | 2014 | Polish | actor, director, and general manager of the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Szurmiej |
Rozka Korczak | Rozka or Ruzka Korczak | 1921 | 1988 | Polish | Jewish partisan leader during World War II. She served in the United Partisan Organization (Fareynikte Partizaner Organizatsye) and, alongside Vitka Kempner and founder Abba Kovner, assumed a leadership role in its successor group, the Avengers (Nokmim)--the only known undefeated ghetto uprising in the history of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozka_Korczak |
Harry Wilf | Harry Wilf | 1921 | 1992 | Polish | businessman, and the co-founder of Garden Homes, one of the largest real estate development companies in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Wilf |
Bronislav Gimpel | Bronislav Gimpel | 1911 | 1979 | Polish | violinist, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronislav_Gimpel |
Diana Reiter | Diana Reiter [Reiterówna] | 1902 | 1943 | Polish | architect of Jewish descent, one of the first female architects in Kraków | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Reiter |
Jakub Goldberg | Jakub Goldberg | 1924 | 2002 | Polish | scriptwriter, assistant director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Goldberg |
Vadim Brodski | Vadim Brodski | 1950 | n/a | Polish | violinist, longtime resident of Rome, Italy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Brodski |
Salomon Szapiro | Salomon Szapiro (Schapiro) known as Dr. Szeffer | 1882 | 1944 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Szapiro |
Agnieszka Kołakowska | Agnieszka Kołakowska | 1960 | n/a | Polish | philosopher, philologist, translator and essayist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnieszka_Kołakowska |
Gedali Szapiro | Gedali Shapiro | 1929 | 1972 | Polish | chess master, born in Siedlce | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedali_Szapiro |
Mattithiah ben Solomon Delacrut | Mattithiah ben Solomon Delacrut | null | null | Polish | Jewish scholar; he lived in the middle of the 16th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattithiah_ben_Solomon_Delacrut |
Rafał Feinmesser | Rafał Feinmesser | 1895 | none | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafał_Feinmesser |
Marian Fuks (historian) | Marian Fuks | 1914 | n/a | Polish | historian specializing in the history of Polish Jews in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Fuks_(historian) |
Stanisław Frenkiel | Stanisław Frenkiel RWA | 1918 | 2001 | Polish | expressionist painter, graphic artist, art historian, teacher, academic and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Frenkiel |
Rachel Feldhay Brenner | Rachel Feldhay Brenner | 1946 | 2021 | Polish | college professor, writer, and scholar of Jewish literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Feldhay_Brenner |
Louis D. Gibbs | Louis DeWitt Gibbs | 1880 | 1929 | Polish | Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_D._Gibbs |
Nathalie Zand | Nathalie Zylberlast-Zand | 1883 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish neurologist who died in a Nazi prison during World War II. She published research under several names including Nathalie Zylberlast-Zandowa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathalie_Zand |
Resia Schor | Resia Schor | 1910 | 2006 | Polish | artist who lived and worked in New York City from 1941 until her death in 2006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resia_Schor |
Moshe Dluznowsky | Moshe Dluznowsky (Dunow) | 1903 | 1977 | Polish | journalist, publicist, writer, dramatist, and editor of the journal | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Dluznowsky |
Ferdynand Zweig | Ferdynand Zweig | 1896 | 1988 | Polish | sociologist and economist noted for his studies of the British working classes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdynand_Zweig |
Philip Bialowitz | Philip Bialowitz | 1925 | 2016 | Polish | Holocaust survivor and resistance fighter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Bialowitz |
Michal Hornstein | Michal Hornstein | 1920 | 2016 | Polish | businessman, art collector and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Hornstein |
Reizl Bozyk | Reizl Bozyk | 1914 | 1993 | Polish | actress of the Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reizl_Bozyk |
Philip Riteman | Philip Riteman, ONS, ONL | 1922 | 2018 | Polish | Auschwitz survivor who, in 1989, after forty years of silence, lectured on his experiences in public and private schools, community centres and universities in North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Riteman |
Janina Bauman | Janina Bauman | 1926 | 2009 | Polish | journalist and writer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janina_Bauman |
Mimi Lerner | Mimi Lerner | 1945 | 2007 | Polish | mezzo-soprano and later head of the voice department at Carnegie Mellon University | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi_Lerner |
Mieczysław Grydzewski | Mieczysław Grydzewski | 1894 | 1970 | Polish | historian and journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of Wiadomości Literackie ('The Literary News') weekly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Grydzewski |
Max Berliner | Max Berliner | 1919 | 2019 | Polish | actor, author, film director and theater director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Berliner |
Anna Kurska | Anna Maria Kurska | 1929 | 2016 | Polish | politician and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Kurska |
Agata Passent | Agata Maria Passent | 1973 | n/a | Polish | journalist and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agata_Passent |
Leon Kasman | Leon Kasman, pseudonyms "Adam," "Bolek," "Janowski," "Zygmunt" | 1905 | 1984 | Polish | communist journalist and politician of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Kasman |
Izrael Abraham Staffel | Izrael Abraham Staffel | 1814 | 1884 | Polish | Jewish inventor, watchmaker, mechanic, designer of calculating machines | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izrael_Abraham_Staffel |
Abram Szpiro | Abram (Abraham) Szpiro | 1912 | 1943 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Szpiro |
Izaak Grynfeld | Izaak Grynfeld | 1912 | unknown | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak_Grynfeld |
Jan Marcin Szancer | Jan Marcin Szancer | 1902 | 1973 | Polish | illustrator, scenographer and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Marcin_Szancer |
Władysław Godik | Władysław Godik | 1892 | 1952 | Polish | Jewish singer, actor and director in Polish, Russian, and Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Godik |
Hipolit Wawelberg | Hipolit Wawelberg | 1843 | 1901 | Polish | Jewish banker, and one of the most prominent members of the Wawelberg banking family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipolit_Wawelberg |
Chaim Janowski | Chaim (Chajkel) Janowski | 1853 | 1935 | Polish | chess master and organizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Janowski |
Halina Górska | Halina Górska | 1898 | 1942 | Polish | writer and a communist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halina_Górska |
Ignace Tiegerman | Ignacy Tiegerman | 1893 | 1968 | Polish | pianist and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignace_Tiegerman |
Mayer Kirshenblatt | Mayer Kirshenblatt | 1916 | 2009 | Polish | painter and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Kirshenblatt |
Zygmunt Zalcwasser | Zygmunt Zalcwasser | 1898 | 1943 | Polish | mathematician from the Warsaw School of Mathematics in the period between the World Wars collaborating especially in the fields of logic, set theory, general topology and real analysis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Zalcwasser |
Bogumil Dawison | Bogumil Dawison | 1818 | 1872 | Polish | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogumil_Dawison |
Tamara Deutscher | Tamara Deutscher | 1913 | 1990 | Polish | writer and editor who researched the leaders of Soviet Communism, together with her husband Isaac Deutscher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Deutscher |
Samuel Schwarz (historian) | Samuel Schwarz | 1880 | 1953 | Polish | Jewish mining engineer, archaeologist, and historian of the Jewish diaspora, specifically of the Sephardic and crypto-Jewish communities of Portugal and Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Schwarz_(historian) |
Nelly Toll | Nelly Toll | 1932 | 2021 | Polish | Jewish artist, writer, and teacher, and was a survivor of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Toll |
Adam Próchnik | Adam Feliks Próchnik | 1892 | 1942 | Polish | socialist activist, politician and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Próchnik |
Jacques Calmanson | Jacques Calmanson | 1722 | 1811 | Polish | Jewish maskilic writer, translator, and personal physician of King Stanislaw II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Calmanson |
Joseph Stillitz | Chaim Joseph Stillitz | 1903 | 1966 | Polish | businessman, who founded and was chairman of the Gor-Ray skirts company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stillitz |
Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum | Jesekiel David Kirszenbaum | 1900 | 1954 | Polish | painter forced to leave his native town in Poland in order to both flee persecution as a Jew and develop his art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesekiel_David_Kirszenbaum |
Albert Katz | Albert Katz | 1858 | 1923 | Polish | rabbi, writer, and journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Katz |
Alfred Schreyer | Alfred Schreyer | 1922 | 2015 | Polish | fiddler and singer, a pupil of Bruno Schulz and survivor of the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Schreyer |
Albert Marchinsky | Albert Marchinsky | 1875 | 1930 | Polish | stage magician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Marchinsky |
Stanley Silverstein | Stanley Oscar Silverstein | 1924 | 2016 | Polish | entrepreneur who was co-founder with his brother Mike of Nina Footwear, a company that manufactures "fashionable but affordable shoes" for women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Silverstein |
Severyn Ashkenazy | Severyn Ashkenazy | 1936 | n/a | Polish | hotelier and philanthropist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severyn_Ashkenazy |
Israel Frenkel | Israel Frenkel | 1853 | 1890 | Polish | Jewish Hebraist, translator, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Frenkel |
Feivel Schiffer | Feivel Schiffer | 1809 | 1871 | Polish | maskilic poet and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feivel_Schiffer |
Jakub Natanson | Jakub Natanson | 1832 | 1884 | Polish | chemist and banker, one of the discoverers of Fuchsine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Natanson |
Maurycy Minkowski | Maurycy Minkowski | 1881 | 1930 | Polish | painter of Jewish ancestry, best-known for his genre scenes of daily life in the shtetls | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Minkowski |
Anda Rottenberg | Anda Rottenberg | 1944 | n/a | Polish | art historian, art critic, writer, former director of the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw and member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), International "Manifesta" Foundation and the International "Germinations" Foundation | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anda_Rottenberg |
Felka Platek | Felka Platek | 1899 | 1944 | Polish | artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felka_Platek |
Yehuda Nir | Yehuda Nir | 1930 | 2014 | Polish | Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist and author of The Lost Childhood | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Nir |
Doda Conrad | Doda Conrad | 1905 | 1997 | Polish | bass operatic singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doda_Conrad |
Klara Zamenhof | Klara Zamenhof | 1863 | 1924 | Polish | Esperantist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_Zamenhof |
Heinrich Racker | Heinrich Racker | 1910 | 1961 | Polish | psychoanalyst of Austrian-Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Racker |
Eleonora Bergman | Eleonora Bergman | 1947 | n/a | Polish | architecture historian who worked on the preservation of Jewish heritage in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleonora_Bergman |
Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld | Gabriel Judah Lichtenfeld | 1811 | 1887 | Polish | Jewish maskilic mathematician, poet, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Judah_Lichtenfeld |
Paul Kaznelson | Paul Kaznelson | 1898 | 1959 | Polish | scientist credited with describing the first case of pure red cell aplasia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kaznelson |
Stanisław Mendelson | Stanisław | 1858 | 1913 | Polish | socialist politician and publicist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Mendelson |
Zofia Zamenhof | Zofia Zamenhof | 1889 | 1942 | Polish | pediatrician and the daughter of Klara (Silbernik) and L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Zamenhof |
Feliks Tych | Feliks Tych | 1929 | 2015 | Polish | Jewish historian and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feliks_Tych |
Marian Einbacher | Marian Einbacher | 1900 | 1943 | Polish | footballer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Einbacher |
Shlomo Zabludowicz | Shlomo Zabludowicz | 1914 | 1994 | Polish | businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Zabludowicz |
Kurt Weber | Kurt Weber | 1928 | 2015 | Polish | cinematographer known for working on comedic and dramatic filmse from the 1950s to the 1980s, primarily in Poland and West Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Weber |
Jerzy Lewi | Jerzy Lewi | 1949 | 1972 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Lewi |
Alex Karczmar | Alexander George Karczmar | 1917 | 2017 | Polish | neuroscientist and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Karczmar |
Reuven Fahn | Reuven Fahn | 1878 | 1944 | Polish | Jewish scholar, writer, historian, ethnographer and epigraphist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuven_Fahn |
Regina Lilientalowa | Regina Lilientalowa born Gitla née Eiger; 24 November 1875 Zawichost — 4 December 1924, Warsaw) | null | null | Polish | ethnographer, translator and journalist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regina_Lilientalowa |
Gustav Bychowski | Gustav Bychowski | 1895 | 1972 | Polish | psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Bychowski |
Morris Katz | Morris Katz | 1932 | 2010 | Polish | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Katz |
David Shapell | David Shapell | 1921 | 2015 | Polish | real estate developer and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shapell |
Józef Berkowicz | Józef Berkowicz also known as Joseph Berkovitz | 1789 | 1846 | Polish | military officer of Jewish origin, the only son of Berek Joselewicz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Berkowicz |
Nathan Reiber | Nathan Reiber | 1927 | 2014 | Polish | businessman, lawyer, philanthropist, and real-estate developer in Miami | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Reiber |
Maria Pogonowska | Maria Pogonowska | 1897 | 2009 | Polish | scientist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Pogonowska |
Beata Rank | Beata Rank-Minzer | 1886 | 1961 | Polish | psychoanalyst | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beata_Rank |
Luba Blum-Bielicka | Luba Bielicka Blum | 1906 | 1973 | Polish | socialist activist of the Bund, and a nurse in the Warsaw Ghetto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba_Blum-Bielicka |
Abram Wolf Edelman | Abram Wolf Edelman | 1832 | 1907 | Polish | rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Wolf_Edelman |
Janina Katz | Janina Katz | 1939 | 2013 | Polish | writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janina_Katz |
Beno Dorn | Beno Dorn | null | null | Polish | master tailor known for providing the Beatles with their first suits out of his shop in Birkenhead, England, suits that are often mentioned as part of the rebranding that contributed to their breakthrough in 1962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beno_Dorn |
Krystyna Magdalena Munk | Krystyna Magdalena Munk | 1913 | 1999 | Polish | medical doctor who completed her studies at the Polish School of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh during World War II. She was awarded a King's Commendation for Brave Conduct | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Magdalena_Munk |
Juan Luria | Juan Luria | 1862 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish operatic baritone | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Luria |
Edward Olearczyk | Edward Olearczyk | 1915 | 1994 | Polish | composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Olearczyk |
Yosef Rosenthal | Yosef Rosenthal | 1844 | 1913 | Polish | Jewish Hebrew writer and lawyer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosef_Rosenthal |
Simón Bajour | Simón Bajour also Szymsia Bajour | 1928 | 2005 | Polish | Jewish-Argentine violinist who was known for both his popular and classical repertoires | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simón_Bajour |
Szymon Kataszek | Szymon Kataszek | 1898 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish composer, bandleader, pianist, a pioneer of Polish jazz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Kataszek |
Julia Keilowa | Julia Keilowa (Ringel) | 1902 | 1943 | Polish | artist industrial designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Keilowa |
Jakub Weinles | Jakub Weinles | 1870 | 1938 | Polish | painter of Jewish ancestry, creating art around Jewish culture, and an active participant of the Jewish Society of the Nurture of Fine Arts (Yiddish: Jidiszer Gezelszaft cu Farszprajnt Kunst, Polish: Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Weinles |
Janusz Weiss | Janusz Alfred Weiss | 1948 | n/a | Polish | journalist, television personality and co-founder of the one of the most popular radio stations in Poland, Radio ZET. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Weiss |
Wiktor Weintraub | Wiktor Weintraub | 1908 | 1988 | Polish | historian who specialized in history of Polish literature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktor_Weintraub |
Jakub Egit | Jakub Egit | 1908 | 1996 | Polish | Jewish leader | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Egit |
Izaak Towbin | Izaak Towbin | 1899 | 1941 | Polish | chess master and organizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak_Towbin |
Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa | Hanna Mortkowicz-Olczakowa | 1905 | 1968 | Polish | poet and writer, author of novels for children and young people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Mortkowicz-Olczakowa |
Mojżesz David Kirszbraun | Mojżesz David Kirszbraun | 1903 | 1942 | Polish | mathematician, mostly known for the Kirszbraun theorem on extensions of Lipschitz maps | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojżesz_David_Kirszbraun |
Aron Zabłudowski | Aron Zabłudowski | 1909 | 1941 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aron_Zabłudowski |
Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski | Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski | 1935 | 2012 | Polish | journalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Krzysztof_Wróblewski |
Mojżesz Pfefer | Mojżesz Pfefer | 1856 | 1919 | Polish | Jewish industrialist and landowner, as well as philanthropist and social activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojżesz_Pfefer |
Arthur Benni | Arthur William Benni | 1839 | 1867 | Polish | citizen, known in Russia (where his name was spelled Арту′р Ива′нович Бе′нни) as a journalist, Hertzen associate, Socialist activist and women liberation commune-founder | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Benni |
Michał Weinzieher | Michał Weinzieher | 1903 | 1944 | Polish | art historian and art critic, museologist, and separately also a writer on constitutional law (known for his studies of the thought of Leon Petrazycki) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Weinzieher |
Shaul Berezovsky | Shaul Berezovsky | 1908 | 1975 | Polish | composer, pianist, and music director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaul_Berezovsky |
Maurycy Allerhand | Maurycy Allerhand | 1868 | 1942 | Polish | lawyer and the Professor of Law at the Lviv University (then John Casimir University) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurycy_Allerhand |
Henryk Domski | Henryk Stein-Domski | 1883 | 1937 | Polish | communist politician and activist, who led the Communist Party of Poland in 1925, before being ousted and repressed as a suspected Trotskyist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Domski |
N. B. Minkoff | Nahum Baruch Minkoff | 1893 | 1958 | Polish | Jewish Yiddish poet, newspaper editor, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N._B._Minkoff |
Michel Sima | Michel Sima, a pseudonym for Michał Smajewski | 1912 | n/a | Polish | artist, known as a sculptor, photographer and ceramicist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Sima |
Selig Newman | Selig Newman | 1788 | 1871 | Polish | Hebraist and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selig_Newman |
Jakub Kagan | Jakub Kagan | 1896 | 1942 | Polish | popular-Jewish composer, pianist, jazz musician and arranger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Kagan |
Walter Plywaski | Walter Plywaski | 1929 | n/a | Polish | Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the United States after World War II. He established a legal precedent allowing immigrants to the country to make a secular affirmation as an alternative to the Oath of allegiance and received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland for his role as a Holocaust educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Plywaski |
Batia Grossbard | Batia Friedkes Grossbard | 1910 | 1995 | Polish | painter influenced by American abstract expressionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batia_Grossbard |
Moshe Rynecki | Moshe Rynecki | 1881 | 1943 | Polish | artist of Jewish origins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Rynecki |
Julia Pirotte | Julia Pirotte | 1908 | 2000 | Polish | photojournalist known for her work in Marseille during the Second World War when she documented the French Resistance, and for photographs taken in the aftermath of the Kielce Pogrom of 1946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Pirotte |
Zina Morhange | Zenaida Paley | 1909 | 1987 | Polish | physician and a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zina_Morhange |
Artur Eisenbach | Artur Eisenbach | 1906 | 1992 | Polish | Jewish historian; an expert on the history of Jews in Poland, member of Polish Academy of Sciences and the head of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw between 1966 and 1968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artur_Eisenbach |
Leon Rodal | Leon Rodal | 1913 | 1943 | Polish | journalist, Zionist-Revisionist party activist, co-founder and one of the commanders of the Jewish Military Union | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Rodal |
Stanisław Flato | Stanisław (Moishe) Flato | 1910 | 1972 | Polish | army intelligence officer and diplomat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Flato |
Andrzej Morozowski | Andrzej Morozowski | 1957 | n/a | Polish | journalist, television personality and writer, connected with Radio ZET and TVN 24 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Morozowski |
Louis Meyer (poet) | Louis Meyer | 1796 | 1869 | Polish | Jewish poet and merchant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Meyer_(poet) |
Monika Krajewska | Monika Krajewska | null | null | Polish | activist, mizrah artist, writer, photographer, and Jewish gravestone art and Hebrew language calligraphy specialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika_Krajewska |
Francis de Sales Lewental | Francis de Sales Lewental | null | null | Polish | Jewish publisher; born at Włocławek, Congress Poland, 1839; died at Wiesbaden on 24 September 1902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_de_Sales_Lewental |
Mieczysław Centnerszwer | Mieczysław Centnerszwer | 1874 | 1944 | Polish | chemist and professor at the Technical University of Riga and at the University of Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieczysław_Centnerszwer |
Szymon Buchbinder | Szymon Buchbinder, or Simeon Buchbinder | 1853 | 1908 | Polish | painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Buchbinder |
Maurice Raichenbach | Maurice Raichenbach | 1915 | 1998 | Polish | draughts champion | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Raichenbach |
Gershon Dua-Bogen | Gershon Dua-Bogen | 1892 | 1948 | Polish | communist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gershon_Dua-Bogen |
Mira Żelechower-Aleksiun | Mira Żelechower-Aleksiun | 1941 | n/a | Polish | painter of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mira_Żelechower-Aleksiun |
Józef Mieses | Józef Mieses | 1882 | 1941 | Polish | teacher, linguist, rabbi and military officer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Mieses |
Adam Bromberg | Adam Bromberg | 1912 | 1993 | Polish | publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bromberg |
Dov ben Samuel Baer | Dov ben Samuel Baer | null | null | Polish | Ḥasidic writer of the end of the 18th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_ben_Samuel_Baer |
Włodzimierz Press | Włodzimierz Press | 1939 | n/a | Polish | theatre and dubbing actor and screenwriter, most notable for playing Grigorij Saakaszwili in the TV series Czterej pancerni i pies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Włodzimierz_Press |
Zygmunt Łempicki | Zygmunt Łempicki | 1886 | 1943 | Polish | literature theoretician, Germanist, philosopher, and culture historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Łempicki |
Maria Orwid | Maria Orwid | 1930 | 2009 | Polish | psychiatrist and pioneer of Child and Family psychiatry and of Family therapy in Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Orwid |
Wiktor Ormicki | Wiktor Ormicki | 1898 | 1941 | Polish | geographer and cartographer, and a university professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktor_Ormicki |
Yitzchak Lowy | Yitzchak Lowy | 1887 | 1942 | Polish | Yiddish theater actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzchak_Lowy |
Rachela Fiszel | Rachela Fiszel | 1496 | 1519 | Polish | banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachela_Fiszel |
Teofil Simchowicz | Teofil Simchowicz | 1879 | 1957 | Polish | neurologist who was born in Ciechanowiec near Warsaw, Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teofil_Simchowicz |
Cecylia Słapakowa | Cecylia Słapakowa | 1900 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish journalist and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecylia_Słapakowa |
Sławomir Grünberg | Slawomir Grünberg | 1951 | n/a | Polish | naturalized American documentary producer, director and cameraman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sławomir_Grünberg |
Stephan Ross | Stephan Ross | 1931 | 2020 | Polish | holocaust survivor who spearheaded the creation of the New England Holocaust Memorial | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Ross |
Jerzy Kluger | Jerzy Kluger | 1921 | 2011 | Polish | Jewish businessman who lived in Rome | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kluger |
Victor Zorza | Victor Zorza | 1925 | 1996 | Polish | born journalist who contributed to the West's understanding of the Soviet Union, and was later known for pioneering work promoting palliative care in Russia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Zorza |
Morris Feinstone | Morris Charles Feinstone | 1878 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish-born British labor activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Feinstone |
Daniel Neufeld | Daniel Neufeld | 1814 | 1874 | Polish | Jewish author, poet, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Neufeld |
Herman Diamand | Herman Diamand | 1860 | 1931 | Polish | lawyer and socialist politician of Jewish origin, cofounder of Workers' Party of Galicia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Diamand |
Rut Wermuth | Rut Wermuth-Burak | null | null | Polish | survivor of the Nazi Holocaust, whose life story was published in Polish as "Spotkałam Ludzi", ("Encounters with the Decent") in 2002, and in English as "Leap for Life" in 2010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rut_Wermuth |
Marcus Younker | Marcus Younker | 1839 | 1926 | Polish | retail executive who co-founded the Younker Brothers department store | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Younker |
Pinchas Goldhar | Pinchas Goldhar | 1901 | 1947 | Polish | and then Australian writer and translator, who wrote mainly in the Yiddish language | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinchas_Goldhar |
Eva Fastag | Eva Fastag | 1917 | 2021 | Polish | Holocaust survivor and resistant | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Fastag |
Wiktor Brillant | Wiktor Brillant | 1877 | 1942 | Polish | pharmacist from Jaroslaw (Galicia, Poland) who was killed by the Nazis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiktor_Brillant |
Hanna Sawicka | Hanka Sawicka, real name Hanna Krystyna Szapiro, pseudonym Hanka | 1917 | 1943 | Polish | communist, represented in Polish People's Republic propaganda as the first leader of the Union of Youth Struggle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Sawicka |
Wolf Krakowski | Wolf Krakowski | 1947 | n/a | Polish | Yiddish-speaking songwriter, singer, and guitarist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Krakowski |
J. C. Blumenfeld | J. C. Blumenfeld | null | null | Polish | Jewish revolutionary and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._Blumenfeld |
Henoch Barczyński | Henoch (Henryk) Barczyński | 1896 | 1941 | Polish | painter of Jewish descent, graphic artist, illustrator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henoch_Barczyński |
Roizl Fishels | Roizl bas Yosef Fishels of Krakow | null | null | Polish | Jewish printer and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roizl_Fishels |
Ilia Szrajbman | Ilia Szrajbman | 1907 | 1943 | Polish | Olympic freestyle swimmer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilia_Szrajbman |
Samuel Eleazar Kronenberg | Samuel Eleazer Kronenberg | 1773 | 1826 | Polish | Jewish banker and industrialist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Eleazar_Kronenberg |
Maria Ajzensztadt | Maria Ajzensztadt | 1922 | 1942 | Polish | singer, who was murdered in the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ajzensztadt |
Moshe Hirschbein | Moshe Hirschbein | 1894 | 1940 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Hirschbein |
Józef Celmajster | Józef Celmajster | 1901 | 1968 | Polish | physician of Jewish descent, first lieutenant of the Polish Army, chief of medical department of the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) in the Warsaw Ghetto and OW-KB. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Józef_Celmajster |
Aaron Selig ben Moses of Zolkiev | Aaron Selig ben Moses of Zolkiev | null | null | Polish | Jewish author who flourished in the seventeenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Selig_ben_Moses_of_Zolkiev |
Leon Felhendler | Leon Felhendler | 1910 | 1945 | Polish | resistance fighter known for his role in organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at Sobibor extermination camp together with Alexander Pechersky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Felhendler |
Sara Zyskind | Sara Zyskind | 1927 | 1995 | Polish | prominentIsraeli writer on the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Zyskind |
Paweł Hertz | Paweł Hertz | 1918 | 2001 | Polish | writer, poet, translator and publisher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paweł_Hertz |
Philip Laskowsky | Philip Laskowsky | 1884 | 1960 | Polish | composer, arranger, bandleader, comedian and actor of the Yiddish theatre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Laskowsky |
Jacob Mącznik | Jacob Mącznik | 1905 | 1945 | Polish | Jewish artist, a young painter of the École de Paris until its destruction by the Nazis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Mącznik |
Josima Feldschuh | Josima Feldschuh | 1929 | 1943 | Polish | pianist and composer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josima_Feldschuh |
Stanislas Hernisz | Stanislas Hernisz | 1805 | 1866 | Polish | freedom-fighter, journalist, physician, employee of the United States Department of State and sinologist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_Hernisz |
Stefan Napierski | Stefan Napierski, actually Stefan Marek Eiger | 1899 | 1940 | Polish | poet of Jewish origin, translator and essayist, in the years 1938–1939 publisher of the bimonthly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Napierski |
Igor S. Korntayer | Igor S. Korntayer | 1890 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish actor, lyricist, poet, and coupletist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_S._Korntayer |
Ludwik Flaszen | Ludwik Flaszen | 1930 | 2020 | Polish | theatre director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Flaszen |
Jacques Stückgold | Jacques Stückgold | 1877 | 1953 | Polish | tenor and voice teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Stückgold |
Nachman Blumental | Nachman Blumental | 1902 | 1983 | Polish | Jewish historian who served as the head of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw between 1947 and 1949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachman_Blumental |
Jacob Brandenburg | Jacob Brandenburg | 1899 | 1981 | Polish | sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Brandenburg |
Stanisław Wygodzki | Stanisław Wygodzki | 1907 | 1992 | Polish | writer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Wygodzki |
Janina Mortkowicz | Janina Mortkowicz, real name: Żaneta Mortkowicz née Horwitz | 1875 | 1960 | Polish | writer, translator and bookseller | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janina_Mortkowicz |
Meir Bosak | Meir Bosak | 1912 | 1992 | Polish | historian, writer and poet | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Bosak |
Henryk Biegeleisen | Henryk Biegeleisen | 1855 | 1934 | Polish | historian, literary critic, publisher, journalist, and ethnographer specializing in the history of Polish literature from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Biegeleisen |
Dina Halpern | Dina Halpern | 1909 | 1989 | Polish | actress of the Yiddish theater, who came to the United States in 1938, on the eve of the Second World War, and spent the rest of her life there | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dina_Halpern |
Israel Reichert | Israel Reichert | 1891 | 1975 | Polish | agriculturist and biologist who established the field of phytopathology in Israel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Reichert |
Jan Rzewuski | Jan Rzewuski | 1916 | 1994 | Polish | theoretical physicist, a member of Polish resistance during World War II and a participant in the Warsaw Uprising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Rzewuski |
Filip Eisenberg | Filip Pinkus Eisenberg | 1876 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish doctor and bacteriologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Eisenberg |
Marcin Kitz | Marcin Kitz | 1891 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcin_Kitz |
Kazimierz Reychman | Kazimierz Reychman | 1882 | 1936 | Polish | diplomat of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazimierz_Reychman |
Horacy Safrin | Horacy Safrin | 1899 | 1980 | Polish | poet, comedian, author and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horacy_Safrin |
Chaja Goldstein | Chaja Ruchel Goldstein | 1908 | 1999 | Polish | dancer and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaja_Goldstein |
Saul Amsterdam | Saul Amsterdam | 1898 | 1937 | Polish | communist activist, a lawyer by profession | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Amsterdam |
Ludwik Holcman | Ludwik Holcman | 1889 | 1942 | Polish | violinist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Holcman |
Chana Blaksztejn | Chana Blaksztejn | null | null | Polish | Jewish writer and journalist active in Vilna in the 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chana_Blaksztejn |
Abraham ben Joseph ha-Levi | Avraham ben Yosef HaLevi Segal | 1620 | 1670 | Polish | commentator born in Cracow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_ben_Joseph_ha-Levi |
Irit Amiel | Irit Amiel | 1931 | 2021 | Polish | poet, writer and translator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irit_Amiel |
Marian Neuteich | Marian Neuteich | 1890 | 1943 | Polish | Jewish composer, cellist and conductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Neuteich |
Saul Kaplun | Saul Kaplun | 1924 | 1964 | Polish | aerodynamicist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Kaplun |
Paula Szalit | Paulina Szalitówna | 1885 | 1942 | Polish | pianist and composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Szalit |
Ludwik Kowalski | Ludwik Kowalski | 1931 | n/a | Polish | physicist, anti-communist author, and professor emeritus of Montclair State University in Montclair, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Kowalski |
Marian Marzyński | Marian Marzyński | 1937 | n/a | Polish | documentary filmmaker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Marzyński |
Jacob Fishman | Jacob Fishman | 1878 | 1946 | Polish | Jewish Yiddish newspaper editor and Zionist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Fishman |
Yechiel Granatstein | Yechiel Granatstein | 1913 | 2008 | Polish | Jewish author and writer in Yiddish and Hebrew, as well as a partisan fighter in World War II and a Jewish refugee activist following the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yechiel_Granatstein |
Jacob Milch | Yankev Zoyermilkh | 1866 | 1945 | Polish | Jewish-American socialist, Yiddish writer, and chocolate manufacturer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Milch |
Jacob Lofman | Jacob Lofman | 1911 | 2002 | Polish | photojournalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Lofman |
Iso Szajewicz | Israel "Iso" Szajewicz | 1910 | none | Polish | Jewish composer and conductor born in Kutno, Poland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iso_Szajewicz |
Walter Spitzer (artist) | Walter Spitzer | 1927 | 2021 | Polish | artist and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Spitzer_(artist) |
Boaz Young | Boaz Yungvits (Youngwitz), aka Bernard Young | 1870 | n/a | Polish | actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_Young |
Estelle Sapir | Estelle Sapir | 1923 | 1926 | Polish | Jewish Holocaust survivor who achieved a measure of fame for her successful battle with the Swiss banking industry, in particular Credit Suisse, after a half-century of fighting for the return of her family's money, which had been deposited by her father, Józef Sapir, before he was murdered in the Nazi concentration camp at Majdanek during World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelle_Sapir |
Mayer Hersh | Mayer Hersh MBE | 1926 | 2016 | Polish | Jew who survived the Auschwitz concentration camp | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayer_Hersh |
Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist | Iza Bieżuńska-Małowist | 1917 | 1995 | Polish | historian of the Ancient Era, professor at the Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iza_Bieżuńska-Małowist |
Jacob Epstein (banker) | Jacob Epstein | 1771 | 1843 | Polish | banker and philanthropist of Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Epstein_(banker) |
Max Helfman | Max Helfman | 1901 | 1963 | Polish | Jewish composer, choral conductor, and educator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Helfman |
Abraham Straski | Abraham Straski | 1903 | 1987 | Polish | born painter who moved to the United States after surviving the Nazi concentrations camps in the Holocaust | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Straski |
Willy Schapiro | Salomon Wolf Willy Schapiro | 1910 | 1944 | Polish | Jew, and a soldier in the FTP-MOI French liberation army in the Manouchian group) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Schapiro |
Shmuel Fershko | Shmuel Fershko | 1914 | 1990 | Polish | composer and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Fershko |
Jakub Mortkowicz | Jakub Mortkowicz | 1876 | 1931 | Polish | book publisher and bookseller | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Mortkowicz |
Jakub Michlewicz | Jakub Michlewicz (or Jakov Michaeli, served under the name Ryszard Trzaskowski, nom-de-guerre Rysiek) | 1929 | 2013 | Polish | Jewish member of the Polish Home Army and a child soldier in the Warsaw Uprising | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Michlewicz |
Jakub Heilpern | Jakub Heilpern | 1850 | 1910 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub_Heilpern |
Aleksander Weintraub | Aleksander Weintraub | 1897 | 1943 | Polish | poet and writer, from a Jewish family from Lwów | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Weintraub |
Leopold Augustus Leo | Leopold Augustus Leo | 1794 | 1868 | Polish | ophthalmologist of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Augustus_Leo |
Solomon Rubinstein | Solomon Rubinstein | 1868 | 1931 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Rubinstein |
Izaak Aaronowicz | Izaak Aaronowicz | 1629 | n/a | Polish | author and printer of Hebrew books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izaak_Aaronowicz |
Lucian Kozminski | Lucian Ludwig Kozminski | null | null | Polish | who was convicted in 1982 of swindling some 3,000 of his fellow Holocaust survivors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Kozminski |
Hermann Warszawiak | Hermann Warszawiak | 1865 | 1921 | Polish | Jew who became a Presbyterian missionary in New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Warszawiak |
Benjamin Orenstein | Benjamin Orenstein | 1926 | 2021 | Polish | Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Orenstein |
Simon Gutman | Simon Gutman | 1923 | 2020 | Polish | Holocaust survivor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Gutman |
Lola Folman | Lola Folman | 1908 | 1979 | Polish | Jewish singer and composer popular in Poland in the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola_Folman |
Henryk Hochman | Henryk Herszel Hochman | 1879 | 1881 | Polish | Jewish sculptor from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Hochman |
Joseph Cukierman | Joseph (Józef, Iosif) Cukierman (Zukermann) | 1899 | 1940 | Polish | chess master | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cukierman |
Emil Sommerstein | Emil Sommerstein | 1883 | 1957 | Polish | Jewish lawyer, philosopher, activist and politician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Sommerstein |
Marian Auerbach | Marian Auerbach a.k.a. Mayer [Majer] Auerbach | 1882 | 1941 | Polish | classical philologist of Jewish background | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Auerbach |
Icchok Malmed | Icchok Malmed | 1903 | 1943 | Polish | Jew and fighter of the Białystok Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icchok_Malmed |
Benjamin Nehemiah Solomon | Benjamin Nehemiah Solomon | 1790 | n/a | Polish | Jewish convert to Christianity who had moved to England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Nehemiah_Solomon |
Klara Segałowicz | Klara Segałowicz | 1897 | 1943 | Polish | actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klara_Segałowicz |
Berachah the Hero | Berachah the Hero | null | null | Polish | Jewish soldier who was killed in the battle near Moscow in the Polish–Muscovite War in 1610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berachah_the_Hero |
Natasza Zylska | Natasza Zylska, real name Natasza Zygelman | 1933 | 1995 | Polish | Jewish singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasza_Zylska |
Joanna Wiszniewicz | Joanna Wiszniewicz | 1947 | 2009 | Polish | academic and historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Wiszniewicz |
Bina Landau | Bina Landau | 1925 | 1988 | Polish | Soprano folk and art singer active from the 1950s to the 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bina_Landau |
Aharon Mor | Aharon Mor | 1947 | n/a | Polish | civil servant who, as senior director, heads the Restitution of Rights and Jewish Property Department at the Israeli Ministry of Pensioner Affairs, which is affiliated with the Prime Minister's Office | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Mor |
William Newcorn | William Newcorn | 1868 | 1946 | Polish | Jewish-American lawyer, politician, and judge from New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Newcorn |
Ruth Sagall | Ruth Sagall | 1929 | 2021 | Polish | actress of stage, screen and television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Sagall |
Tadeusz Puder | Tadeusz Puder | 1908 | 1945 | Polish | Roman Catholic priest of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Puder |
Pinkus Kartin | Pinkus Kartin | 1914 | 1942 | Polish | Jewish communist activist and anti-Nazi resistance fighter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkus_Kartin |
Lejb Wulman | Lejb (Leon) Wulman | 1887 | 1971 | Polish | Jewish physician and social activist, the co-author (with Joseph Tenenbaum) of a monograph on the Polish-Jewish physicians murdered in the Holocaust (The Martyrdom of Jewish physicians in Poland) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lejb_Wulman |
Isaj Dratwer | Isaj Dratwer | 1905 | 1985 | Polish | Jewish bacteriologist and esperantist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaj_Dratwer |