Prof. Z. Wolfson.³⁷⁹
Entry fee 3 zlotys
ARG II 226c (Ring. II/121)
Description: printed, Polish, Yiddish, 137x98 mm, 1 sheet, 2 pages.
Before 19 October 1941, Warsaw ghetto. Invitation to one of the events of
the Children’s Month, a concert of oratorio music at the Great Synagogue
on Tłomackie Street on 19 October 1941.
[1] CHILDREN’s MONTH September–October 1941 CENTO
s3467s
Entrance ticket
to the oratorio concert
at the Great Synagogue at Tłomackie Street³⁸⁰
on 19 October 1941
at 4 p.m.
Entry fee 4 zł
Committee (CKI) of the ŻSS and the committee of the Young Talent Competition organised by CKI, whose aim was to give the moral and material support to young musicians, dancers, and singers. He survived the war in hiding outside the ghetto. See AŻIH, AJDC, 210/51, s. 15; ibidem, 210/49, s. 9; AŻIH, CKŻP, 303/V/425 P4791; Berman, Vos der goyrl hot mir bashert, p. 101; ARG II 148 (Ring. II/91), ARG II 154 (Ring. II/98), ARG II 191 (Ring. II/68); Warsaw Ghetto: Guide to the Perished City, p. 341.
379 Zygmunt Wolfson, pianist, professor. In the Warsaw ghetto he accompanied soloists during their performances. He was also a member of the Central Event Committee of the ŻSS and sat on the competition committee for young talents. Warsaw Ghetto: Guide to the Perished City, pp. 536, 577.
380 In connection with the new concept of exploitation of the Warsaw ghetto, implemented from spring 1941, the occupier’s administration revoked some bans on education, culture and religious life, including the ban on group prayers issued in January 1940 under the death penalty. In June 1941 the grand opening of the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street took place. See Sakowska, Ludzie z dzielnicy zamkniętej, p. 134.
