BS”D 1 Elul 5781 Jan Bader was born in Kraków on 9 August 1901, the son of Leib and Jenny (born Bergstein). He was a Kraków lawyer, graduate of the Jagiellonian university and from 1949 to 1977 a member of the Israeli Knesset. In Kraków he had an office with his brother Henryk. He was a journalist. During the was he escaped to the East and was in Soviet territory, where he was arrested. In 1943 he managed to reach Israel. In Israel he was arrested by the British because of his underground fighting for independence and was only freed in May 1948. He died on 16 June 1994 in Ramat Gan, where a street is entitled to him. Another one can be found in Beer Sheva.

BS”D 29 Av 5781 Leon Sperling was born in Kraków, the son of Salomon. He represented Poland in football and played 21 matches in the national team. We was an Olympic athlete, three times Polish champion within the Cracovia football team (1921, 1930, 1932) and worked in a bank. The graduated from a school with a formation in commerce. One of the best forwards for Poland in the interwar period, he was called the “magician of the ball”. Almost his whole career was in Cracovia, for which he played 381 matches. His first match for Poland was on 18 December 1921 in Budapest against Hungary. In 1924 he took part in the Olympics in Paris. In 1934 he retired from his football career, wed Sara Perla and moved to Lvov.…

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 the first chapters:…

BS”D 18 Av 5781 Adolf Gross was born on 26 July 1862 in Kraków, the son of Mojżesz Dawid and Sara Gold. He was a lawyer, a member of parliament, a city councillor. He graduated from the Św. Anna school in Kraków in 1880 and from the faculty of Law of the Jagiellonian University in 1888. He fought for the emancipation of women. He died on 28 December 1936 and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery on ul. Miodowa, may he rest in peace.