Given name: Leon Family name: Nowodworski (2)

  • (1, 2) YES
  • (1, 2) Male
  • (1) Leon , (2) Jan
  • (1) Nowodworski , (2) Nowodworski
  • (1, 2) No information
  • (1)

    Barrister, head of the Council of Barristers in Warsaw, National Democrat (a member or follower of this right-wing Polish political party); at the beginning of the occupation, as head, he was against striking out Jews form the list of barristers (on German orders)

    (2)

    a Pole, the head of the court. Before the war a famous anti-Semite. He refused to include the 'Aryan clause' to the legal code and to take an oath of loyalty to Hitler.

    • (1) Poles
    • (2) Intelligentsia, Poles
  • (1)

    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

    (2)

    Kaplan, Chaim Aron; Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary, transl. from Hebrew and ed. by A. I. Katsh

  • (1) [136], (2) 44