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 | ALEKSANDROVITCH, Fishel, built second Bet Hamidrash in
Piotrkow in 1882. |
| BARON, Jacob, editor of the weekly publication Undzer
Tsaytung, from 1924; co-founder of a theater group in 1928. |
| BELCHATOWSKI, Shlomo, published sole issue of the
newspaper, Piotrkower Shtime, in 1914. |
| BERLINER, Jacob, became a city councilor in 1934. |
| BERNARD, Dr. Hayim David (1758-1858), physician, Tzadik,
Chassidic leader; born in Dzialoszyce; follower of the seer of Lublin
(Rabbi Jacob ha-Levi HOROWITZ); he may be the son of poet and physician, Issachar
Falkensohn BEHR; descendants are survivors and brothers Saul and Robert DESSAU. |
| BUDKOWSKI, Berl, only Jew to be accepted in the Piotrkow
police force, in 1917. |
| BRAUN, Marcus, member of a citizen's committee formed at
the start of World War I. |
| CEDERBAUM family: printers in Piotrkow.
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Click on the image for a larger view
of a book published by Mordechai Cederbaum in 1912. |
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| DEUTCH-GOLDSTEIN, Chaim, teacher in the late 18th century;
assumed the position of Kehila secretary in 1811, following the death of
Tovya NEWMAN |
| DOKTOR, Laybl, physician in the late 18th century |
| EIBESZYC (AIBESHITZ) family, philanthropists in Piotrkow,
supporters of educational institutions. |
| Fajtlowicz,
Mojzesz (1767-1837), moved to Lodz in 1800 and helped establish the Jewish
community there. |
| FEINKIND, Moshe, published the sole issue of the newspaper Piotrkower
Shtime, in 1914. |
| FRIEDLANDER, David, decorated the Piotrkow synagogue at the
beginning of the 19th century with a huge mural of Jerusalem; the painting
was destroyed during WWII. |
| GREENSPAN, David, elder in the sheet metal Worker's Guild,
established in 1927. |
| HEILPERIN, Michael (1823-1888), left Piotrkow in the 1842
for the freedom struggles in Hungary (1848) and America (1858), where he
died in 1888. |
| HELFGOTT,
Ben (b. 1929), survivor of the Piotrkow ghetto, founder of the '45 Aid
Society for Holocaust Survivors; see also Stockholm
International Forum on the Holocaust. |
| HOROWICZ family; philanthropists in Piotrkow,
supporters of educational institutions; one member was Pinchas HOROWICZ (HOROWITZ). |
| HOROVITCH, Menachem, co-founder of a theater group in 1928. |
| JOACHIMSON, Dr. ?, head of the Bikur Cholim from 1805. |
| KAMINER, ?, member of a citizen's committee
formed at the start of World War I. |
| KATZIN, Moyshe, helped finance the construction of the
Piotrkower Shul in 1791. |
| KIMELMAN, Yechiel, led the Bundist self-defense in 1906;
died in prison in 1907. |
| KON, Mikolay (son-in-law of Max BRAUN), member of a
citizen's committee formed at the start of World War I. |
|  LAU, Rabbi Yisrael Meir, Israel's chief rabbi;
as a young child experienced the Holocaust in the Piotrkow ghetto, the
Czestochowa work camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp, from which he
was liberated; son of Rabbi Moshe Chaim LAU (last chief rabbi of Piotrkow), brother of
Naftali LAU-LAVIE; see, I Believe ("Ani
Maamin") Rabbi Lau's recollection of his life as a child in the Nazi
hell, and "The
Polish Connection," by Haim Shapiro |
| LAU-LAVIE,
Naftali, Holocaust survivor, distinguished journalist,
diplomat and advisor to Moshe Dayan, Shimon Peres and
Yitzhak Shamir; Israeli ambassador to the U.S.; son of Rabbi Moshe Chaim LAU
(last chief rabbi of Piotrkow), brother of Rabbi Yisrael Meir LAU. |
| LEIPUNER, Dr. Abraham (d. 1926), physician. |
| LENSHITSKY, Motel, co-founder of a theater group in 1928. |
| LEVIT, Izak, co-founder of a treasury to aid young men in
getting married. |
| LEVY, Gustave, lawyer; established philanthropic
organization Chevra Latzedakah ("Dobroczynnosc") in 1894,
which aids both Jewish and non-Jewish poor families. |
| LIFSHITZ (LIPSZYC) family; philanthropists in Piotrkow, supporters of
educational institutions. |
| LUBLINER, Dr. Michael, one of the Tseirey Agudat Israel in
Piotrkow; father of Dr. Yakov. |
| LUBLINER, Dr. Yakov (Kovi), well-known scientist, mathematician. |
| MALTZ, I., city councilman during inter-war period. |
| MEIRAND, Marcus, co-founder of a treasury to aid young men
in getting married. |
| MINDL, "Maskil" Shmuel Aba, from Riga;
established a private Yiddish shul in 1888. |
| NEIFELD, David, settled in Piotrkow and opened a bookstore
in 1868; formerly publisher of the first Jewish weekly newspaper in Polish, Jutrzenka. |
| PANSKY, Adolf, co-founder of a treasury to aid young men in
getting married. |
| PANSKY, Eliahu, established a print shop in 1899-1900. |
| PINKUSEWICZ, Abraham Reuven ("Pinkus"), hospital
administrator. |
| RAPPOPORT, Shmelke (Shlomo), teacher in the late 18th
century; Kehila intercessor and translator; wife, Hinda. |
| REITBERGER, Gershon, co-founder of a treasury to aid young
men in getting married. |
| ROSE, Ernestine
Louise (neé
POTOWSKI) (1810-1892), born in Piotrkow, died in England;
daughter of a rabbi; social activist and equal
rights pioneer in the United States; founded the National Woman Suffrage
Association with Susan B. Anthony. |
| ROSENBLATT, Joseph Berish, editor of the weekly publication
Undzer Tsaytung from 1924. |
| SHERESHEWSKI, Leon, appointed commissar over the Kehila in
1936, after it was dissolved amid political strife. |
| SHERESHEWSKI, Moshe, first official Zionist to settle in
Piotrkow, in 1880. |
| SHLOSSBERG, Menachem Mendl, builder of a large factory on
the Bugai River in 1895, with his son-in-law Anatole FRUMKIN; employed many
Jewish and non-Jewish workers. |
| SZTERNFELD, Professor Arie (1905-1980), mathematician, wrote "Introduction to Cosmonautics"
(on the theory of space flight); one of the leading scientists in the Soviet
space program; born in Sieradz, lived in Moscow after
1933; family originated in Piotrkow. |
| SZYDLOWSKI family, philanthropists in Piotrkow,
supporters of educational institutions. |
| ZILBERSHTEYN, Wilhelm, co-founder of a treasury to aid
young men in getting married; chairman of the Kehila in 1933. |
| ZYGELMAN, Sh. A., co-founder of a theater group in 1928. |
| ZYGMUNT, Yoel, member of a citizen's committee formed at
the start of World War I. |
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