Shmuel Kornitzer

Grave of Shmuel Kornitzer in the New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow

Schmuel Schmelka Kornitzer ( Yiddish שמואל שמעלקאַ קאָרניצער, Born July 29, 1905 in Nagyszőlős , Austria-Hungary ; died February 25, 1941 in Auschwitz concentration camp ) was a Polish rabbi in Krakow .

Life

Schmuel Schmelka Kornitzer was born as the son of Josef Nechemja Kornitzer . His mother was Breindel, a daughter of Pinchas Chaim Klein from Söjlesch.

From 1935 he worked as a Dajan , a judge at a Beth Din . From 1936 to 1939 he was also a member of the provisional board of directors of the Israelite religious community in Krakow.

After the German conquest of Poland in 1939 and the ghettoization of the Jewish population in the General Government , he wrote Rappaport ( Hebrew שבתי רפפורט) a letter to the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza (RGO) - the central welfare office approved by the German occupation administration. In it they asked the Krakow Bishop Adam Stefan Sapieha to arrange for the Germans to end the deportations from the Krakow ghetto .

Both the RGO and Sapieha then tried to influence the German authorities. As a result, however, the two rabbis were arrested and taken to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on February 21, 1941. Kornitzer was given the concentration camp number 10370.

According to the death certificate that Kornitzer's wife received, he died on February 25, 1941. He is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in Krakow.

literature

• Leszek Hońdo: Nowy Cmentarz Żydowski w Krakowie. Przewodnik - część 1. Kraków : Księgarnia Akademicka, 2006, p. 101-102. ISBN 83-7188-916-X .