Given name: Leon Family name: Berenson (9)

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One of the most prominent lawyers, a great activist, noble man and an excellent writer. Until the last moment he took an active part in working for social welfare as the main member of Jewish self-aid organizations. After completing studies in W. he opened a law office which dealt with criminal cases. He ran the office until 1907, gaining a great popularity as an excellent defence attorney. He died unexpectedly. During the war he grew closer to the Jewish society.

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A barrister, famous member of the Warsaw Bar, the defence attorney in political trials in 1905. After the First World War he was a diplomat for a short time, then until 1939 a barrister. He wanted to reform the Judenrat, he exercised major influence over the whole clerical apparatus. He died of heart disease in 1941.

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Candidate for the position of the head of the Order Service (Jewish police), rejected due to bad health. The head of the Anti-Epidemic Section; he died of typhus.

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A barrister

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A lawyer, in autumn 1939 he lived in Narbuta Street.

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a barrister, distinguished defence counsel in crime trials; in 1920-1923 a councillor of the Polish embassy in Washington; a defence counsel in Polish Socialist Party (PPS) members' trials in 1905-1907, during the inter-war period - in the Brest trial; he died in the ghetto

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A Warsaw barrister, defence attorney in political cases. He died in the ghetto (B.T.-B)

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A lawyer, in a meeting of a House Committee - the members should first volunteer to labour camps; a prominent lawyer.

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Warsaw Telephone Directory 1939 (SASTW - Spis Abonentow Sieci Telefonicznej m.st. Warszawy 1939): Berenson Leon, a barrister, Narbutta Street No. 6, telephone number: 4-05-45

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He criticised Szerynski and the the way that the Order Service (Jewish police) was organised. Czerniakow offered him the position of the superintendent of the Order Service (Jewish police) in February 1949, but he refused.

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Adler, Stanislaw <> <>

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Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part I

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Czerniakow, Adam: Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

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Ernest, Stefan; Pam. 'Trzeci Front. O wojnie wielkich Niemiec z Zydami Warszawy 1939-1943' (On the War of Great Germany with the Jews 1939 – 1943)

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Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s work was edited and translated into English by Jacob Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958 under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum

(1) nr 35/2, (2) , cz.2 str. 62, (4) 100, (5) 25, (6) 115; 172, (8) 61, 298, (9) 273p, 307