
People of the Ghetto


31.08.2021
Kalonimus Kalman Szapiro (20.05.1889–03.11.1943)
tzaddik, rabbi of Piaseczno, one of the rabbis of the Warsaw ghetto, innovative educator, expert and commentator on the Torah

27.08.2021
Pnina Grynszpan-Frymer (1923–17.11.2016)
activist of the resistance movement during World War II, heroine of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

23.08.2021
Dawid Wdowiński (25.02.1895–1970)
a neurologist and psychiatrist, member of the Ha-Tzohar organization, co-founder of the Jewish Military Union, hero of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

20.08.2021
Noemi Wigdorowicz-Makowerowa (24.11.1912–07.15.2015)
doctor and dentist, long-term researcher at the Medical Academy in Wrocław

17.08.2021
Artur Gold (17.03.1897–1943)
composer, conductor, violinist, co-founder of a dance orchestra

17.08.2021
Abraham Lewin (1893–1943)
teacher, member of the “Oneg Szabat” group, author of a journal from the Warsaw ghetto

17.08.2021
Izabela Czajka Stachowicz (05.11.1893–11.12.1969)
writer, chronicler of the life of interwar Warsaw, muse of artists, honored with the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta

17.08.2021
Roman Kramsztyk (16.08.1885–06.08.1942)
painter, draftsman, member of the elite Group of Five


17.08.2021
rabbi Menachem Ziemba (15.10.1883–24.04.1943)
called the Gaon from Warsaw, the Warsaw Gaon or Menachem Pragier, one of the rabbis of the Warsaw ghetto, author of religious works and sacred…