Edwin Opoczyński, the son of Aleksander Biberstein, a specialist in Orthopaedics and Surgery, was born on 25th January 1918 in Cracow. Edwin Opoczyński got his education in Cracow where he passed the maturity exam and subsequently, started studying Medicine at the Jagiellonian University.  On the day of WWII outbreak, Opoczyński was a 3rd year Medicine student who also worked as a volunteer at the Internal Diseases Ward of the Gabriel Narutowicz Hospital in Cracow.  After German invasion in September 1939, the continuation of his volunteer work at the hospital became impossible. Thus, Opoczyński moved to the Jewish Hospital located at Skawińska Street. After establishing a getto, the medical facility was included within its area.  After closing the Cracow’s getto in March 1943, Opoczyński was moved to the…

18 January 1892 marks the birth of Fryderyk Tadanier. Born in Kamionka Strumiłowa, Tadanir was a modernist architect. His works include the Municipal Savings Bank, (pl. Szczepański 5, designed with Stefan Strojek), the District Department on the corner of Słowackiego 18a and Łobzowska 44 (also together with Stefan Strojek), the reconstruction of the Main Post Office at Wielopole 2, the Regional Intermunicipal Association of Social Care at Praska, the Ćmielów Factory house at Biskupia 11 and Sereno Fenn 2, the reconstruction of the Theatre Bagatela, the Railway Station Post Office building in Kraków and he Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) at Pędzichów 27. Fryderyk Tadanier was a graduate of the the faculty of Civil Engineering in the Lvov Technical University. However, Tadanir decided to link his professional life…