The Jews of Kraków and its Surrounding Towns

Kraków Jewish Guard - 1831

During the 1831 Polish Uprising, groups of Jewish volunteers banded together to protect the Jews in the Judenstadt.
The list below contains the names of those volunteers.

(Source: Majer Balaban, Historja Zydow w Krakowie i na Kazimierzu, 1304-1868, vol. II, page 736.)

 

Group One
(based in house #62, Szeroka 7)
 

  • Chaim Natan ROSENFELD (Group Leader)
  • Aron BIRNBAUM
  • Zimel HOROWITZ
  • Mojzesz JEMIOLEK
  • Mojzesz ALEKSANDER
  • Aron PICELE
  • Zelig KLEINBERGER
  • Dawid REINER
  • Leibel BORNHORN
  • Pinkus GIRTLER
  • Szabsa KLEINERER

Group Two
(based in house #108, ul. Jakoba
naprzeciw Boznicy Izaka)

  • Mojzesz KORNBLUM (Group Leader)
  • Herszel INFELD
  • Abraham INFELD
  • Samuel FELIKS
  • Izak KLEINBERGER
  • Leizer DERFLER
  • Aron GUTMANN
  • Berl SZANZER
  • Joachim ROSENFELD
  • Judel BADER
  • Samuel SIKER

Group Three
(based in house #84, Szeroka 26)
 

  • Benjamin HOROWITZ (Group Leader)
  • Mojzesz BADER
  • Herszel KOPLIK
  • Rubin PICELE
  • Abraham GERSTENFELD
  • Mojsesz HOCHGELERTER
  • Berl ICHHAUSER
  • Leibel PISEK
  • Israel LIBERT
  • Leibel LICHTIG
  • Zysel SZWENK

 

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