Given name: Emil Family name: Wajc

In the ghetto he was called the 'king of the brushmakers'. He came from Tarnow, before the war he had made brushes. Politically involved in the Bund. Together with his partners established a big factory of brushes in the ghetto. It employed 2,000 workers; quickly became a millionaire. He supported financially Jewish institutions in the ghetto. He gave a big loan to the Joint to be returned after the war. He supported generously cultural activities in the ghetto, the Bund activities and its underground press. He also significantly donated a modern orphanage.