Michał Weinzieher

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Michał Weinzieher (born June 1, 1903 in Będzin ; died April 1944 in Kraków ) was a Polish lawyer , art historian and museum director. In addition to art reviews, he also published legal studies and travel reports. He was murdered as part of the Holocaust .

He was married to the Polish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka , who was also a victim of the Holocaust.

life and work

Michał Weinzieher was born into a largely assimilated Jewish family and grew up in his hometown, then around 30,000 inhabitants. His father, Salomon Weinzieher (1869–1943), was a doctor, temporarily director of the district hospital, chairman of the city council of Będzin and a member of the Sejm . He was also murdered by the German occupiers as part of the Holocaust. His brother, Jan Jakub Weinzieher (1908–1940), also became a doctor. He served as a lieutenant in the Polish Air Force and was murdered in the Katyn massacre .

Michał Weinzieher studied law at the University of Warsaw . During the Polish-Soviet war he volunteered for the Polish army. Then began a lively publication activity in periodicals and books, which were divided into three areas:

  • Art criticism in the magazine Nasz Przegląd and consideration of art, especially by Polish artists of Jewish origin,
  • legal studies, particularly on constitutional law and Leon Petrażycki's theses , as well as
  • Travel reports from England, France and the Soviet Union.

He became chairman of the Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts and was also a member of the Jewish Regional Studies Society . As a result, he worked at the History Museum of the City of Lwów (today's Lwiw, dt: Lemberg ). In early 1940 he married the poet Zuzanna Ginczanka in Lwów , who had published her first book in 1936 and who had fled the Germans after the attack on Poland . After the Germans also took Lwów, the couple fled to Kraków. Weinzieher now used the code name "Michał Danilewicz". From 1943 he and his wife hid in Krakow, supported by two friends, Maria Güntner and Janusz Woźniakowski. The two of them could not leave the house for a year. After denouncing them, they were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 at 5 Mikołajska Street , on account of alleged contacts with the Polish underground movement. They were separated and both were tortured.

Michał Weinzieher died in custody in April 1944 under unknown circumstances.

His wife's wife, brother, father and grandmother were also murdered during the war that Hitler started and during the Shoah .

Publications

  • Eugeniusz Zak : wspomnienie pośmiertne (1926)
  • Uroda Miss Judei ( Nasz Przegląd , March 31, 1929)
  • Fermenty literackie ( Europe , 1930)
  • Symche Trachter , Paris (1930)
  • Wystawa prac Zygmunta Menkesa: styczeń 1931 (1931)
  • Idea prawno-państwowe Leona Petrażyckiego (1931)
  • Refleksje nad ideami prawno-handlowemi Leona Petrażyckiego (1932)
  • O racjonalną politykę muzealną ( Wiadomości Literackie , January 6, 1935)

literature

  • Czy wiesz kto to jest? , ed. S. Łoza, Warsaw, Wydawnictwa Artystyczne i Filmowe ( for the Zrzeszenie Księgarstwa), 1983, page 336 (Reprint of the ed. Warsaw, Wydawnictwo Głównej Księgarni Wojskowej, 1938)
  • Kto był kim w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej , ed. JM Majchrowski, et al. , Warsaw, Polska Oficyna Wydawnicza BGW, 1994, page 465, ISBN 8370665691
  • Marian Kałuski, Ku pamięci iw podzięce Jankielom: mały leksykon Żydów-patriotów polskich , Warsaw, Von Borowiecky, 2001, page 179, ISBN 8387689378

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jews in Eastern Europe: Weinzieher, Salomon , accessed October 25, 2018
  2. ↑ Maria Adlerfligel: HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES , accessed on October 26, 2018
  3. ↑ Artur Tanikowski, Eugeniusz Zak , tr. J. Król, Sejny , Pogranicze, 2003, p. 26. (bilingual edition; Polish / English) ISBN 8386872500
  4. ↑ Midrasz , No. 7-8 (75-76), July / August 2003, pp. 67-69.
  5. ↑ Quoted from Marian Stępień, Ze stanowiska lewicy: studium jednego z nurtów polskiej krytyki literackiej lat 1919–1939, Kraków, Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1974, p. 426.
personal data
SURNAME Weinzieher, Michał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish art historian, victim of the Holocaust
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Będzin
DATE OF DEATH April 1944
Place of death Krakow