With regards and greetings,
Union of Societies
for the Care for Children
and Jewish Orphans CENTOS
Warsaw, Leszno Street 2
Dr A. Berman I. Gitler³⁹⁷
ARG I 312 (I/1121)
Description: original, hectographed typescript, stamp, Polish, Yiddish, 220x293
mm, 1 sheet, 1 page.
Before 22 November 1941, Warsaw ghetto. Invitation for 22 November
1941 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Patronage of the Kitchen-
School for Children no. 145 on Nowolipki Street 68.
The children’s kitchen no. 145 Nowolipki Street 68, at the Ber Borochov School,
served as a centre of clandestine education. On 1 October 1941, it was transformed into one of the first official primary schools in the Warsaw ghetto. In early August 1942 the first part of the Ringelblum Archive was buried in the basement of the building, and then the second part in February 1943.
Invitation
We have the honour to invite you on Saturday, 22 November 1941, at 11.30 a.m.,
in the building of the school at Nowolipki Street 68, second floor, for
397 Józef Gitler-Barski (1898–1990), lawyer, AJDC official, financial director of CENTOS, communist. From 1942 he was a member of Polish Workers Party and an organiser (together with Berman) of its structures in the ghetto. In January 1943 he left the ghetto, in July he came to the Hotel Polski and was subsequently deported to the Bergen-Belsen camp. In 1945–49 he was the General Secretary of the AJDC in Poland, member of the Scientific Council of the Jewish Historical Institute, and honorary chairman of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute. In 1956–67, he was active in the Polish confectionery industry. He published his memoirs, Przeżycia i wspomnienia z lat okupacji (Wrocław 1986). See Jewish Social Self-Help (forthcoming).
