BS”D 30 Sivan 5781 Post-traumatic distress syndrome is classified under F43.1 in the International Classification of Diseases. Its symptoms are usually flashbacks, nightmares and sleep disturbances. The patients display social distancing, lack of sympathy and a difficulty to feel positive emotions, as well as “emotional numbness” and are easily aroused, having exaggerated reactions to certain stimuli. The first generation will often display arterial hypertension, chronic pains, digestive complains and a lack of affect as well as depression and feelings of guilt. Common symptoms in the second generation are role-switching (feeling to have been the actual Shoah victim) with additional feelings of guilt and shame. They see themselves as “living memorial candles” and act accordingly. They have a higher psychological vulnerability and higher dependence. Neuroses, anxiety, fears and…
The Memorial Day for Jews of Dębica is organized by Ireneusz Socha each year to mark the first liquidation action in the local ghetto that took place on July 21, 1942. AGENDA July 21, 2021, Dębica 18:00 Former ghetto area (corner of Kosciuszki and Glowackiego Streets) Commemoration of 12,000 Polish Jews, including more than 2,000 Jews of Dębica, who were imprisoned in the local ghetto, made forced laborers and then were exterminated in the city or at the death camps in Bełżec and Auschwitz. May their memory be a blessing! May their souls be bound up in the bond of eternal life! 19:00 Willa Wiluszowka Hotel Synagogue in the life of a Jewish community – a lecture by Patrycja Pogoda Jewish inspirations – solo improvisations by Bartlomiej…
BS”D 24 Sivan 5781 Ludwik Flaszen, son of Feliks and Justyna (born Frischer) was born on 4 June 1930 in Kraków. He was a theatre and literary critic, writer, translator, essayist, theatre specialist and director. He was a co-creator of the Laboratorium theatre and worked for years with Jerzy Grotowski. He was awarded in the year 2000 the Commander Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland by president Aleksander Kwaśniewski. Among his best-known publications are: Glowa i Mur (Kraków, 1958), Cyrograf (Kraków, 1971). After the war began he emigrated with his family to Lvov. There, Soviet authorities sent the whole family to the region of the middle Volga and then to Uzbekistan, where they stayed until the end of the war. He came…
We extend an invitation to the ceremony of the unveiling of a dedication to the family of Aniela and Franciszek Szewczyk from Gruszow, organised by the voivode of Lesser Poland, the National Memory Institute of Krakow and the administration of Raciechowice, which will take place on 18 June 2021 in Gruszow (commune of Raciechowice, district of Myślenice) starting at 5 PM.
In the name of the Council of the 12th district and the Association of Friends of Prokocim and the K.I. Gałczyński Youth House of Culture we extend an invitation to the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to the victims of the forced labour camps Julag II and Baudienst in Prokocim. The ceremony will take place on 11 June at 12 PM. Further information may be found on the attached invitation.
BS”D 20 Sivan 5781 Zofia Ameisenowa was born on 31 May 1897 in Nowy Sącz. She was a professor of history of art in the Jagiellonian University (UJ) as well as a Curator of the Jagiellonian Library (JL). In 1915 she started to study Philosophy in the UJ, where she also studied history of art and archaeology. After the completion of her studies she began to work in the JL, taking care of visual collections and Jewish Old Testament iconography. She was quickly among the best researchers of the middle ages. After the beginning of the was she went to Lvov but eventually was caught and placed in a ghetto, from which she escaped to Romania, hiding in Bukovina and then in a convent in Bucharest. After…
BS”D 20 Sivan 5781 Stefan Ritterman, the son of Maria (born Dawidowicz) and Izydor Ritterman, was a professor in the Jagiellonian University (UJ) and an associate dean of the law department. He began to study medicine in the UJ but changed a year later to law. He was very talented and while studying medicine he finished music school in the conservatory of the musical society in Kraków and was fluent in three foreign languages: Russian, German and French. He became a master of law in 1927 and a doctor in law in 1929. At the beginning of the war he escaped to Lvov and then, as a “class enemy” was sent by the Soviet Union to the Ural mountains. In 1946 he came back to Poland. In…
BS”D 16 Sivan 5781 Róża Rock, born Grossman on 27 May 1871 was the founder of a modern educational centre for Jewish orphans in Kraków. In 1918 she was in charge of the “ Megadle Jesomim” Association, called “Association of Jewish Women for the Defence and Education of Orphans”. In 1922 it changed its name into “Bet Megadle Jesomim” and “Association of the Educational Centre of Jewish Orphans in Krakow. The children had a basic education and learnt skills that would allow them to cater for themselves after leaving the orphanage. She had the building of the Association on ul. Dietla renewed, which improved the conditions of the orphans. The works were supervised by her husband, Łazarz Rock, an architect and a councillor of the city of…
We present the decision of the District Court of Kraków in the matter numbered I C 1989/19, dated 20 May 2021, published at https://gwzkrakow.pl/2021/05/26/ogloszenie/ in which the Chabad Lubawicz Foundation is ordered to leave the Izaak Synagogue. A courtesy translation, by Dr D Cohen, could be: Number I C 1989/19 Decision in the name of the Polish Republic On 20 May 2021 The District Court of Kraków, First Civil Court represented as: Chairman: District Court Judge Piotr Pilarczyk Clerk: judicial secretary Sara Franiak following the hearing of 6 May 2021 in Kraków, in the matter of the Jewish Religious Community in Kraków v. the Chabad Lubawitch Foundation Kraków with seat in Kraków regarding EVICTION 1. orders the Chabad Lubawitch Kraków Foundation with seat in Kraków to clear…
BS”D 15 Sivan 5781 Artur Stefan Nacht-Samborski was born on 26 May 1898, originally Artur Nacht. His parents were Joel Nacht and Sara Weindlig. He was a painter and a professor, in Sopot, of the Gdansk Higher School of Plastic Arts, as well as a professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He studied painting from 1918 to 1921 in the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków under Józef Mehoffer and Wojciech Weiss. In this free time he liked to box. During the occupation he was in Lvov. Rescued from the ghetto of that city by friends, he hid near Warsaw with the assumed name of Stefan Samborski. He legally changed his name in 1956 into Stefan Artur Nacht-Samborski. Further information in English: https://culture.pl/en/artist/stefan-artur-nacht-samborski Translation…