Given name: Unknown Family name: Kohn (14)

(1)

functionary of the 'Trirteen' famous in the ghetto for his contacts with the Sicherheitspolizei. Also an owner of a trade company.

(2)

A Jew and a Gestapo agent. Rescued religious Jews at the beginning of the I Action in the Warsaw ghetto; killed during the I Action in the backyard of the building where a the Order Service (Jewish police) station was located.

(3)

The 'Kohn & Heller' company - omnibuses.

(4)

Had contacts withe the 'Thirteen', obtained numerous concessions with Heller (e.g. a horse-tram).

(5)

Left the 'Thirteen' - a department store; a concession to sell vegetables to the ghetto - they make a bundle; Gancwajch's collaborator.

(6)

Collaborated with Germans. Together with Heller he set up the first trade agency in the ghetto.

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From Lodz, a collaborator, Ganwajch's collaborator; later on he left the 'Thirteen' - a department store.

(8)

Reicher knew him from Lodz - an average merchant.

(9)

A member of the Gestapo, smuggled on large scale.

(10)

Lived at Orla Street No. 3, flat 2 - September 1941. He and Heller had a Sicherheitspolizei ID. Kohn and Heller Department Store at Leszno Street No. 14. He and Heller try to get a tobacco license - May 1941. usually drives a German car. More powerful than Gancwajch. The Gestapo officers came to his office every day. Short, Semitic features, dark-haired, shiny hair combed back, smartly dressed. Works with Kirsztejn.

(11)

Made a fortune rescuing arrested Jews from prison and cancelling confiscations of property with Heller. For some time he was a clerk of the 'Thirteen', but he left the department and set up a company with Heller. After he had left the 'Thirteen' he made a profit by driving a horse-tram and smuggling people to the 'Aryan' side.

(12)

A co-owner of horse-trams, a Gestapo agent. Shot at the beginning of August 1942.

(13)

Kon and Heller were unofficial patrons of the theatrical arts and cabarets, sometimes they decided to act as benefactors, they gave away much money, during a certain period of time they could release people from prison or bring a relative from the provinces. All rumours about the lot of the district came from them, they were the first to inform about the upcoming deportation.

(14)

A famous Jewish collaborator, owned a company.

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spelled as 'Kon'

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Came from Lodz.

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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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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

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Reicher, Edward W ostrym świetle dnia. Dziennik żydowskiego lekarza 1939-1945 (In Broad Daylight. A Diary of a Jewish Doctor 1939 - 1945)

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Documents from the State Archive of New Records regarding the Warsaw Ghetto

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Adler, Stanislaw

(1) , cz.2str.69, (2) s.119, 185,341, (3) 37,38, (4) 179, (5) [265,277,286,, 297,345,356], (6) 54, (7) 131,139, (8) 38, (9) 56,68, (10) [s., 358,, 359,, 368,, 56], (12) 99, (13) I, 197