BS”D 21 Elul 5781 In February 1945, right after the end of the German occupation, a plan was made to open a Jewish orphanage in Rabka, which would alleviate the situation of the Temporary Committee for Help for the Jewish Population in Kraków on ul. Długa 38. The children who had survived the camps would go there. Finally an orphanage for the sickest children was opened in Rabka at the end of June 1945. It included three villas (named Stasin, Juras and Niemen) and about 100 children were sent there, from various cities in Poland. The lists from the summer of 1945 show the presence of about 115 children who had witnessed the horrors of the Shoah. Parts of the local inhabitants were scandalised, especially Father Józef Hojoł, who was…

BS”D 17 Elul 5781 Wiktor Lezerkiewicz was born on 25 August 1919, he was the son of Abraham and Berta. Before the war he played football for Makkabi Kraków and was among those saved by Oskar Schindler. During the German occupation he was in the ghetto in Kraków and was sent to the camp in Belżec in October 1942 and managed to escape with his brother during the transport. The rest of the family was murdered. He went back to the Kraków ghetto and after the liquidation was sent to Płaszów. Thanks to Oskar Schindler in October 1944 he was in the Brünnlitz Camp, where he worked as an electrician until the liberation in May 1945. After the was he went back to Kraków and married Regina Steiner, with whom…

BS”D 12 Elul 5781 Julian Aleksandrowicz was born on 20 August 1908. He was a medical doctor, a professor of medicine and a philosopher. 20 sierpnia 1908 r. w Krakowie urodził się Julian Aleksandrowicz; lekarz internista, profesor nauk medycznych, filozof medycyny i hematolog. He became a medical doctor in 1933 and finished studying Physical Education next year. He also defended his doctoral thesis in 1934. In 1939 he was drafted into the army. He escaped from a POW camp and returned to Kraków in January 1940, but in 1941 he was taken to the ghetto in Kraków, where he organised one of the three hospitals. During the liquidation of the ghetto he escaped with his wife and children through the sewers and rejoined the army. He organised medical services and…