Arnold Chaim de Porada Rapaport, son of David and Karolina (born Herz) was born on 15 July 1840 in Tarnów. He was a city councillor of Kraków from 1872 to 1881, a member of Parliament from 1876 to 1907 and a member of the State Council from 1879 to 1907 and was involved in several charities. He was a lawyer, an industrialist and a philanthropist. He graduated from the Św. Anna school in Kraków (1858) and in the Faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University (1862) and defended his doctoral thesis in 1863. He worked as a lawyer in Kraków and Vienna from 1870. He wanted that the Jewish Community of Kraków support Polish autonomy when Poland was not independent. He had influence in important circles and fought against ritual…

BS”D 6 Av 5781 Szymon Feldblum was born in Kraków, the son of Majer and Amalia (born Weber). He was a lawyer and worked for the Jewish Community in Kraków. He graduated from the Św. Jacek secondary school in Kraków on 1900, and then studied Law in the Jagiellonian University (UJ) on 1906. After that he worked for the famous Kraków lawyer, Dr. Ludwik Szalay (1857-1934). After 7 years he became a lawyer. After Dr. Szalay retired, he passed on his office to Szymon Feldblum. He defended his clients with real passion and represented pro bono poor clients. He was the president of the Disciplinary Committee of the Kraków Bar. He died on 28 July 1956 in Tel Aviv and was buried in the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery in Israel, may…

BS”D 27 Tamuz 5781 On 7 July 1942 Germans murdered around 1250 Jews from Nowy Żmigród. Most Jews stood on plac Bala, following German instructions. 750 were allowed to remain in the city and received a stamp on their documents. Others were sentenced to death, among which older, sick and handicapped people. They were selected based on looks and ordered to move out of the group. Those who were too slow were beaten with truncheons and even bottles. About 1000-1250 Jews were selected and taken to the woods neear Hałbowa and shot. Others were taken to Jasło. The first liquidation of the Rzeszów ghetto also took place on 7 July 1942. That day the Germans murdered about 350 people and made others go through a selection on the grounds of…

Sara Schenirer was born in Kraków on 3 July 1883. She was the daughter of Betzalel and Róża of the Lach family. She was the founder of the Beis Yakov School System. She grew up very religious and wanted to learn more about the world. Not being able to find such a school, she attended lectures in Polish. She met R. Dr. Moshe Flesch in Vienna and eventually, having talked to her brother and to the Belzer Rebbe, in 1917 she opened a school in her seamstress studio on ul. Katarzyna 1 in Kraków. The school was a great success and seeing that there were not enough teachers for Jewish girls, she opened a teacher’s school on ul. Stanisława 10, where from 120 teachers graduated in 1937. By the time…