Given name: Szymon Family name: Kataszek (4)

(1)

A Polish- Jewish (?) conductor. In the Warsaw ghetto conducted a orchestra of Jewish policemen.

(2)

Member of a stage dancing group 'Karasinski i Kataszka', which was popular during the inter-war period. In the Warsaw ghetto he conducted the JP orchestra. Escaped to Lvov, where he conducted an orchestra in a German night club under an assumed name. He was recognised there by a German, who knew him from Warsaw, and was shot in 1943. [footnote p. 281]

(3)

The conductor of the Jewish Police orchestra, a well-known musician, previously in hiding (?) in Lvov on 'Aryan papers', played in the SS orchestra. Some SS officer, who was visiting the Warsaw ghetto recognised him - he was sent to Pawiak and killed.

(4)

The conductor of the Jewish Police orchestra in the ghetto. Deported to Auschwitz (probably for illegal arrival to the Warsaw ghetto).

(2)

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

(4)

name unknown

(1) 172, (2) 281, (3) 95, 171,202, (4) [s., 95,, 96]