Given name: Jan Family name: Przedborski (7)

(1)

In the ghetto he ran an enormous orphanage for 1,000 children at Wolnosc Street No. 16 for some time. He was one of the best and most intelligent doctors in the ghetto; a specialist of children's internal diseases. He was a private doctor of the Berman family. Murdered in 1942.

(2)

A paediatrician, head of the Orphanage at Wolnosc Street No. 14; co-operated with the Centos (Central Organization for Orphan Care). Czerniakow's friend. He was at the chairman's home on 23 July 1942, when the news about his suicide came. Died in Auschwitz

(3)

He lectured on paediatrics in the Nursing School.

(4)

Centos (Central Organization for Orphan Care) activist.

(5)

Specialist in internal medicine, before the war, he was a doctor in the Municipal Health and Care Centre at Swietojerska Street No. 19, co-chairman of the Scientific Commission of the Physicians' Union of the Republic of Poland. In 1942, he managed a new orphanage, created at Zegarmistrzowska Street No. 14. On 7 August 1942, he couldn't get to the orphanage, because of a German blockade (from 7 to 9.30 a.m.). The children and the staff were then taken to the Umschlagplatz.

(6)

a doctor, the Hotel Polski; Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz; headmaster of the dormitory at Wolnosc Street No. 14

(7)

a paediatrician, in ghetto he worked in the orphanage at Wolnosc Street No. 14

(5)

There were 1,000 children in the orphanage at that time, because during the action the children from the Main Shelter Home at Dzielna Street No. 39 and from the boarding school for religious children at Dzielna Street No. 8, were resettled there.

(6)

other testimonies: Iop2YV033/1216

(2)

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

(4)

Barski, Józef Przeżycia i wspomnienia z lat okupacji (Experiences and Memoirs of the Occupation)

(6)

Cytrynik, Helena - Slawa

(1) 107,140, (2) 216, (3) 48, (4) [s., 11], (5) 106, p, (7) 373,438