Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum, ed. and transl. Jacob Sloan, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York 1958

A doctor, shot by the Germans in the street at the beginning of 1940, after curfew.

A counsellor of the French embassy, a lawyer, committed suicide.

A member of the management of the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) in Warsaw.

The head of the youth section at the Emergency Service, an outcast, expelled from the Zionist Organisation [due to h...

leader of the gang of depraved children

Owned a bookshop in the ghetto.

A decent man, briefly connected with the 'Thirteen'.

An activist of the Agudat Israel - a conservative and religious organisation. A member of the Judenrat, the head of...

A rabbi.

A poet, from time to time visits Gancwajch.

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

before the war a judge in a Chamber of Commerce, member of the Judenrat

Ganwajch's collaborator, from Lodz?

Collaborated with Ringelblum on the underground Archive.

At a conference at Leszno Street No. 13; uninformed - in the company of 'Thirteen' [functionaries].

Threw his weight about the Judenrat. (Fuel Commission [of the Judenrat]); a neophyte.

A Christian convert, a member of the leftist PLAN (Polish People's Independence Action), escaped from the Gestapo bu...

The vice-president of the Municipal Board.

an artisan activist, Judenrat member, owned a sweets factory in the ghetto; supervised admissions to the police.

Performed in a play that Ringelblum watched on 11 December 1940.

A well-known Gestapo functionary, a collaborator, shot.

A well-known revue actor.

A barrister, committed suicide.

A typesetter and an underground activist.

group commander of the Labour Battalion, spent many years in Germany - expelled in 1938 - 'their' man; lived in Lesz...

Activist of Poale Zion-Left, publicist; in the Warsaw ghetto, he was organising civil resistance and the underground...

he performed in the play, which Ringelblum saw on 11 December 1940; a fairly close friend of Gancwajch

he helped (?), Gancwajch's protector

a doctor, he was titled: Amtsarzt fuer die Stadt Warschau, an SS-man and a sadist

a German, supervisor in Dynasy Street

a Jewish actress, lived at Lelewela Square No. 10, phone number: 12 53 08 [Warsaw Telephone Directory 1938/39 (SASTW...

Gancwajch's relative, one of the ringleadesr of the Thirteen, avoided detention

A chairman of House Committee Leszno Street No.2 , at the meeting

A printer and publisher (publishing house 'TOMOR'), he committed suicide during the First Action

a Jewish historian, MP in the Polish Parliament (Sejm), political activist (Poale Zion), later - General Zionists (Z...

dr, syn Gerszona, nadkantora - na czele Towarzystwa ratunkowego

A decent man, he had a brief relationship with the 'Thirteen'- he was tricked.

barrister, Folks-Partaj activist, co-worker of the 'Moment' daily

Soviet citizen released from the Pawiak prison

he lived at Gorskiego Street No. 3 (December 1939) doctor, assistant professor of the Institute for Judaic Studies,...

A typesetter, activist of the Bund and the Printers' Association, he organized underground press, he was shot in the...

doctor, convert, anti-Semite

The Superintendent of the Jewish Police (Order Service) in the ghetto, a neophyte, a well-known briber; refused to s...

Agent Gestapo, bliski współpracownik Gancwajchaweryfikacja byłych agentów 13 do SPudało mu się czmychnąć - nie zosta...

killed in September 1939

Bund activist, former secretary of YIVO (Institute For Jewish Research) in New York (survived?)

he mediated in ransoming of captives kept and arrested by the Germans

a professor, German expert on Jewish matters, he seized Samuel Adalberg 's huge Judaic library; he was a 'theoretici...

a German commissar of the prison in Gesia Street, for money he sets people free ahead of time. A decent man - good a...

from Tarnow. Brush manufacturer for the German Army, huge profits

a head of department ( trade dept.?)

owner of "The Last Respects" funeral home

Dror member - a messenger between the Warsaw Ghetto underground and other ghettos in the country

the superintendent of the Polish Police

a convert, priest - but, in fact, he was not in the ghetto

A theatrologist and a worker for voluntary causes; in 1940 he was the chairman of the Coordinating Commission for Je...

He was beaten by the Germans in Dynasy Street.

A director and actor. He converted between November 1939 and March 1940.

A Hebrew-Jewish writer who co-operated with the Jewish Gestapo agency in the ghetto. He was also called 'Parszawiak'.

A former head of Czyste Hospital ward, in the ghetto he was senior registrar of the hospital in Leszno Street.

A barrister, ZSS (Jewish Social Self-Help) presidium member, a Judenrat member.

An actor and an impresario. He died.

A rabbi, present during the execution.

He came from Tarnow,a producer of brushes for the German Army; enormous profits.

Mylna Street No. 11, he lay ill in bed- he was thrown away with the chair from the second floor.

Barrister, head of the Council of Barristers in Warsaw, National Democrat (a member or follower of this right-wing P...

writer, famous political activist; before the war probably an Abwehr agent, during the occupation Gestapo's renegade...

entrepreneur, Ludwik Natanson's grandson, the president of Community 1871-1896

rampant in the spring of 1940 in Warsaw, beat and attacked Jews

rabbi, Szmul Zbytkower’s descendant

red-haired Szlomo from Panska Street, one of the main currency speculators in the ghetto

a Gestapo agent, Panska Street No. 32, member of a House Committee, doesn't wear the armband

says that the new Pawiak's guards were Soviet guards

one of the agents of the 'Thirteen', escaped arrest on 25 May 1942

a doctor and a columnist, died during the occupation

an Austrian officer, a proud Jew; decorated with the Iron Cross - killed by an Ukrainian.

arrested with a fake pass; a telegram from Auschwitz came (probably about his death)

cinema owner, allegedly shot in Plac Teatralny on 8 November 1941

present at the execution

ghetto commissar

journalist of 'Hajnt' (Dzis) newspaper; on the conference in Leszno Street No. 13; a revisionist, Gancwajch's toady,...

a decent man, he was conned by 13 [the "Thirteen"?]

Collector and explorer of Jewish folklore, author of the folklore collections 'Praca i wolnosc' (Labour and Freedom)...

present at the execution

an engineer, Judenrat member, sons - build the walls, they suspected him of collaboration with Germans; arrested in...

At a conference at Leszno Street No. 13 - revisionist scandalmonger; doctor - a columnst

Przemówienie o Chanuce; krewny Meryna; pisze raporty do gestapo; sponsor; robi świetne interesy - ma administrację 1...

Gancwajch's son, his confirmation in June 1941

Sagan's lodger

Erlich's partner. shot

killed in September 1939

owner of the restaurant at Leszno Street No. 1

a doctor, hunchbacked, taken to forced labour - September 1940

took part in the performance which Ringelblum watched on 11 December 1940

has never been a rabbi but he poses as one, collaborator of the 'Thirteen', a well-known thief

confectioner, sells cakes to the ghetto

from Haszomer Hacair, liaised between underground organisations in the Bialystok Ghetto, the Warsaw Ghetto and others

Jewish policeman, took poor woman's side - killed by a German; came from Lodz

Barrister, Gancwajch's co-worker; from Lodz?

became Christian, lives at Elektoralna Street No. 32

Financial director of "Joint" (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) in Warsaw

a baker

a Jewish writer

the head of the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee), the chairman of ZOB (Jewish Fighting Organizat...

parish priest of the Wszystkich Swietych kosciol (All Saints' church)at Grzybowski square.

a barrister, head of the Labour Battalion

merchant activist, member of the Judenrat

an industrialist, the chairman of the Union of Jewish Merchants, the chairman of the Economic Council of the ghetto

Historyk, założyciel konspiracyjnego Archiwum, działacz społeczny;historyk, twórca Podziemnego Archiwum Getta Warsza...

The editor of 'Idisze Togblatt', the organ of Agudat Israel, co-worker of 'Gazeta Zydowska'.

Członek komisji batalionów pracy, członek Judenratu kierownik wydziału pracy

A young journalist, the son of a popular columnist Boncze from the 'Moment' daily. Co-worker of 'Gazeta Zydowska'.

The chairman of the Judenrat in Lodz.

Insane, runs around the whole ghetto. He came from Lodz.

Wilner's brother-in-law - killed together with son.

head of the Department of Social Welfare, Judenrat member

An old journalist, he refused to co-operate with 'Gazeta Zydowska'.

A writer, daughter of professor A. Kraushar and wife of an National-Democratic writer.

took part in the theatre performance which Ringelblum watched - 11 December 1940

A man of letters, took part in a conference at Leszno Street No. 13.

the Judenrat employee, the great wheeler-dealer type - he got the smuggled good out to the cooperative of Judenrat e...

from Galicja, a Neophyte, Jewish policeman; head of II police station; he wants to be called 'Chief' or 'Captain' -...

A composer an underground activist; shot in the street

A doctor, in the youth section of the medical emergency service.

a brother-in-law of the collaborator named Anders, a Jewish policeman from Region II

a cruel Gestapo functionary, he kills at his guard post ('wacha')

a Zionist activist; at a conference at Leszno Street No. 13; contributor of 'Gazeta Zydowska'

A historian, professor at Warsaw University.

A baker, shot.

She performed in a play which Ringelblum saw on 11 December 1940.

the German head of W.C. Toebbens' shops.

feeds the poor.

A rabbi, famous thief. He was a collaborator of the 'Thirteen'.

A doctor in refugee shelters.

She died of pneumonia, which she caught while washing the floor for the Germans with her own panties.

A lawyer, in a meeting of a House Committee - the members should first volunteer to labour camps; a prominent lawyer.

Prison commandant in Gesia Street.

A lawyer, Gancwajch's collaborator, probably from Lodz.

collaborator, in prison, perhaps shot at Pawiak

a doctor, head of the former JEAS (The Association to Further Emigration)

one of the ringleaders of the 'Thirteen', avoided arrest on 25 May 1942

nickname: Zalmenke-Burzuj (bourgeois) - a Jewish revolutionary activist; community activists usually gathered at his...

He worked in the Sejm (parliament) building, beaten by Germans

a clerk in the offices of the district authorities in Grojec

head of the Department of Internal Administration in the Office of the Head of the District

a clairvoyant

A fortune-teller, a trainee solicitor; she foretold exactly the outbreak of the war, details of air raids; the defea...

an appointed administrator president of the Judenrat in Warsaw in the last years before the outbreak of World War II

a former director of a Jewish theatre in Vilna

the head of the Judenrat in Sosnowiec

a doctor, lives at Leszno Street No. 18, his telephone number was stolen

head of the Department of Health [of the Judenrat]

member of Haszomer Hacair (left-Zionist scouting organisation) High Command, commandant of the Jewish Fighting Organ...

the author of a fundamental work

a Pole - member of The Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP), a messenger between the Warsaw ghetto resistan...

wife of Szymon Askenazy (widow, he died in 1935), died on the 'Aryan side'

journalist, co-worker in Warsaw Jewish 'Moment' daily, administered People’s Kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto

from Pabianice, brother of the rabbi from Gora Kalwaria

the head of the soup kitchen at Leszno Street No. 40, in a footnote: a writer, a member of the underground Ghetto Ar...

a collaborator; pre-war boxer (Makabi or Gwiazdy); a known carrier's son - one of the leaders of carries belonging t...

she read a poem about a smuggler

his work entitled 'Kwestia Jezykowa u Zydów Polskich' ('The Lingustic Issue among Polish Jews') was supposed to be p...

A painter.

Was hit on the head with an iron object while working, died.

A writer, a satirist, fable writer

Killed, Hochman's son.

Had a licnce to remove rubbish from the ghetto.

One of the leaders on the "Thirteen," avoided arrest on 25 May 1942.

a doctor - a German

A combatant, the head of the Labour Battalion, also a terrible idiot.

Quit his job in a department store in Leszno Street No. 13, got a licence to sell vegetables in the ghetto, makes a...

The deputy of the Jewish Police chief.

Taught on courses.

white-haired, he was attacked by Germans in Krochmalna Street

Adam Czerniakow's wife

a Jewish craftsmen unions activist, a senator (1931-1935), from 1937 - a member of the Provisional Board of the Jewi...

a Jewish writer, Elchanon's son; a well-known Jewish writer, Hilel Cajtlin's grandson; The whole family lives in Sli...

conservative-liberal Jewish writer. In July 1942 he went in a tallisim to the train; sons: Aron - playwright and poe...

He told Lehman many stories. He also died

a Hebrew writer, he sells books in the streets

a professor, leader of Falanga

A Polish self-help representative, in the ghetto.

A co-owner of "Melody Palace", she kept close contacts with the Germans; she was a German officer's lover,...

A barrister, Gancwajch's co-worker from Lodz?

an actor, a neophyte

A PhD in the history of art, the author of many works on monuments of the culture of the Polish Jews.

Son of Ludwik Zamenhof (who created Esperanto), a doctor. His wife, sister (also doctors) and him were arrested by G...

a journalist, a contributor of Gazeta Zydowska

an assistant professor, a histologist, after the war - a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a professor at th...

a member of the Judenrat, Czerniakow's 'assistant', present during the opening of a synagogue, died after the New Ye...

two brothers, cooperated with the 'Thirteen'; wanted by the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei)

a sportsman, shot

actress of the Jewish theatre in Vilna

famous director, he became Christian between November 1939 and March 1940; he directs Mirela Efros

a Bund activist, an Uruguayan citizen

Doctor of Philosophy, assistant professor of the Institute for Judaic Studies, lived at Kopernika Street No. 17 (Ord...

a clairvoyant

'Josele Kapota', a Gestapo agent, Jewish police officer; arrested; head of the prison (?); before the war a wheeler-...

A Gestapo agent, collaborator, he denounced the underground organisations in the ghetto. Probably shot at Pawiak.

A refugee from Silesia

A journalist, 'Hajnt' co-worker, in the ghetto - worker of ŻSS (Jewish Social Self-Help)

artist painter, apprehended for labour, he painted portraits for the Germans

musical instruments confiscated

Emanuel Ringelblum's son