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Published here is a collection of Staszow related photographs from Yad Vashem - all published with kind permission of Yad Vashem. I am very grateful to Leszek Tybon for sending these fascinating images and to Jean-Pierre Stroweis and Mrs Roza Rotenberg for providing extensive descriptions for some of the pictures.

Please get in touch with me if you can recognise any people or places in these photographs!

The Wiener Family

This is a photograph of the Wiener Family. All pictured here following members of the family perished in the Holocaust:

Top row: third from left: Zwi (Hersz) Wiener, second from left: his wife Fruma, first from left: their oldest son Meir, first on the right: Meir's wife Mattle.

Middle row: from the left: Hanale, daughter of Meir, Golde Wiener - wife of Joseph (son of Zwi and Frume), third person - Eliahu Wiener. First on the right: Zeev (Wolf), son of Zwi and Frume Wiener.

Bottom row: from the left: Mania,daughter of Meir; Golde's daughter Haiuta; Ester daughter of Zeev (Wolf); Nacha, Zeev's wife, mother of Ester.

Identification of these people was possible thanks to information from Dr. Harold Wiener of Jerusalem.

Unknown location One of Judenrat's public kitchens. Unknown people - probably in Dluga Street.
Linas Hacedek

Members of the Governing Body of "Linas Hacedek" - photo taken in late 1930s.

Bottom row, forth from left: Szmelkie Aizenberg. Other people on the photo: Mosze Kantor, Leibus Fiveles-Aspis, Liebel Zilhas-Horowicz, Anszel Rozenbaum and Josef Brokab.

Rynek Rynek (Market Square) in Staszow - photo taken in 1941
Workshop Jewish workshop in Szkolna Street - the notice on the house reads:"Industrie Werk Staszow" . Jewish women were employed here repairing German Army uniforms. After the liquidation of the Staszow ghetto, the workers were transported to Opatow, where they were murdered. Prior to the war the building housed the Staszow High School ("Gimnazjum")
Forced Labour Jews forced to work in Rynek (Market Square) around 1941
Blutz The Governing Body of the Jewish Sport Club "Blutz" - April 1926. Sitting (from the left): Meier Prajs, Cha-Mordke Tenenbaum, Kalman Hengeltraub, Jankie Tochterman. Standing - third from the left: Szlomo Graf Pantirer.
Primary School Pupils and staff of a Jewish Primary School - Staszow 1930s
Unknown The activists of the Bund in Staszow. Sitting (from the left): Chel Mulgraum, Rabbi Zvi (Herszel) Wiener,Mendel Frydman, Abraham Szmul Krigsztein, Chaim Albaum, Riven Baizech. Standing from the left: Mendel Grinberg, Ben-Zion Lewowicz, Herszel Goldberg, Leibis Blum.
Unknown Prewar photo of Jewish youths in Hachshara
Unknown Prewar photo of Jewish youths in Hachshara
Unknown Scouts from the batalion "Bnei Shemesh" (The children of the sun) of the Zionist Youth movement, picture taken at the departure one of their (girl) instructor, Bajla Zinger, to a preparatory agricultural training camp in Eretz Israel. The flag in the background reads: to the departure of the woman director to Hakhshara, batalion "Bnei Shemesh", Zionist Youth in Staszow.
Unknown A group photo of rabis and students of Beit Yosef Yeshiva, a religious school from Agudat Israel. The top banner in the background reads "High Yeshiva for Talmud and Education in Staszow". Seen in the third line from the bottom: Rabbi Israel Rozenberg, head of the Yeshiva (in the center), Reb Heiligman, kashruth supervisor (i.e. supervisor of kosher food in accordance
with Jewish law) and Rab Leibowicz, director. Among staff also: Herszel Goldberg, Efraim Zynger (possibly the chairman of the Staszow Judenrat), Kopel Majzels, Eli Pomezancblum.
Unknown Entry gate to ghetto Unknown
Munish Halfend (on the left) and Pinhas The Porter (in the center) - photograph taken in the ghetto 1942. A photo of a Jewish policeman, Haim Pfefferman (Peperman), overseeing the Ghetto border. Haim Peperman perished in Warsaw Unknown - possibly a Jewish partisan or somebody hiding in a forest. According to Yad Vashem photo archives - a pre-war photo of a man named Whiny Yosha
Benjamin Tochterman Rabbi Grojbart Unknown
Benjamin Tochterman (Binyamin Tochterman) - owner of a bookshop and one of the founders of the and the chairman of "Mizrahi" movement . Wolf Tochman, the chairman of the community, before the war. Rabbi Tzvi Weiner

 

     
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