BS”D 24 Av 5781 On 2 August 2021, the 77th anniversary of the liquidation of the “Family Camp for Gypsies” in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, members of the Jewish Community of Kraków together with the Chairman of the Board, Tadeusz Jakubowicz, took part in the ceremony of remembrance of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust Victims, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Taking part in the ceremony were: Roman Kwiatkowski (president of the Roma association in Poland), Piotr Cywiński (director of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau), Romani Rose (president of the Central Council of German Roma and Sinti) and Włodzimierz Bernacki (Permanent Secretary, Government Representative for the monitoring of the reform of higher school education and science, who read a letter from Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki), the Vojevod of…
BS”D 23 Av 5781 Aleksander Biberstein was born on 1 August 1889 in Tarnopol. He was a medical doctor and a chronicler of the Kraków ghetto. After Polish independence in 1918 he worked as a doctor in the polish army and then for the social services. In 1942 he organised in the Kraków ghetto a hospital for infectious diseases and was its director. He was also president of the organisation for Jewish orphans. He was a prisoner in the concentration camps of Płaszów and Gross-Rosen. He emigrated to Israel in 1958. He is the author of one of the most important works on the history of Kraków Jews during German occupation, called The Extermination of the Jews of Kraków, published in 1986. He wrote in one of…