September 1939–July 1940, Kraków, Provisional Board of the Kraków
Jewish Community. Announcements:
(1) On the appointment of the new board of the Provisional Board of the
Jewish Community in Kraków;
(2) On the compulsory work of all Kraków Jews on filling the air raid trenches;
(3) On registration of all Jews of Kraków and Kraków County, starting
on 8 November 1939;
(4) On compulsory resettlement from Kraków of some of the Jewish population
until 15 August 1940.
(1)
L. 24/39
To the Jewish Population!
By decree of the Municipal Board of the Capital Royal City of Kraków of
13 September 1939, the Provisional Board of the Jewish Community in Kraków
has been dissolved and a new board was simultaneously appointed with the
following composition:
Members of the Board:
1. Professor Marek Biberstein,¹ chairman of the board [Rejtana Street 10]²
2. Doctor Wilhelm Goldblatt, attorney, deputy chairman [Grodzka
Street 42]
3. Councellor Teodor Dembitzer³ [Królewska Street 11]
4. Engineer Władysław Kleinberger [Starowiślna Street 8]
5. Ferdinand Schenker, private clerk [Bonifraterska Street 3]
6. Engineer Bernard Willer⁴ [Żuławskiego Street 1]
1 Marek Bieberstein (Biberstein) (?–1944), teacher, social activist, first chairman of the Judenrat in Kraków, member of the ŻSS Presidium. Arrested in mid-1940, imprisoned in Kraków and Tarnów until 1942, died in the concentration camp in Płaszów.
2 Addresses in square brackets are added in handwriting.
3 Teodor Dembitzer (1887–?), electro-technician, owner of a workshop on Poselska Street in Kraków, married to Sara, née Wischnitzer, had a daughter Irena, survived the war. See a duplicate of his identification card of 1941 in AŻIH, Judenrat in Kraków, 218/37/1685 and CKŻP, Records and Statistics, 303/V/425/D1108.
4 Bernard Willer (1879–?), engineer, married to Tekla. See duplicate of his identification card in AŻIH, Judenrat in Kraków, 218/37/21.
