Given name: Szyja Family name: Braude

A teacher, philologist and a worker for voluntary causes. He was a member of The Jewish Social Self-Help (ZSS) in the ghetto and a member of YIKOR (the Jewish Cultural Organization). E. Ringelblum's close friend. Together with other workers he signed an appeal to the ghetto public for help for the Yiddish language school. He committed suicide during the First Action in order to avoid being caught by the Nazis.

His wife died during the bombing of Warsaw in September 1939. His sister, Mira Braude, was a nurse connected with the sanitary department in the Centos (the Central Organization for Orphan Care), in the ghetto. She contracted typhus and died.