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In October 2026, we organized our 12th annual series of events commemorating the pre-war Jewish community of Brzesko and vicinity. Years ago, our focus was solely on remembering the murdered Jews of Brzesko. However, we later realized that it would be deeply unfair to remember people who lived in Brzesko for several centuries only because […]

The newspaper “Di Yidishe Shtime” (The Jewish Voice) was published in Yiddish in Kraków in the 1920s and was dedicated to events concerning Jewish life in Kraków and Galicia. The editor of this newspaper was Brzesko-born Samuel Faust. Samuel Faust was born in Brzesko on November 19, 1894. His father, Josef Faust (1842–1909), was a […]

Before World War II, women living in Brzesko and the surrounding areas most frequently used the assistance of midwives during childbirth – they turned to a doctor only when the delivery was expected to be particularly complicated. Starting from 1877, the main midwife attending the births of Jewish women was Estera Eichenholz. Between 1877 and […]

Before the war, the majority of Brzesko’s Jewish community consisted of Orthodox Jews. In 1909, 17 of them met so that to establish “The Society for Hasidic Torah Study”. Such associations operated in many Galician towns. For example, in Kraków’s Kazimierz district on Józefa Street, you can still see a building that belonged to such an […]

The ancestors of Jakob Baruch Vogelhut (born 1889) lived in Brzesko for many generations; the gravestones of his grandmother, Beila Malka Grun née Tellerman (1825-1909), grandfather, Zachariasz Vogelhut (1828-1913), and great-grandfather, Mojżesz Dawid Vogelhut, who died in 1873, can still be seen at the Brzesko Jewish cemetery. Her soul passed away on Adar 25 (5)669 […]

Research conducted in several archives allowed to establish that 36 pre-war Jewish students of the Brzesko high school (gymnasium) managed to survive the war, most of them in the USSR or because they left Poland before 1939. 1. Sara Feigel Bienstock Born in Brzesko on July 7, 1906, daughter of Mojżesz and Sussla née Gelberger/Vogelhut, […]

Efroim Jakob Beidner was born in Brzesko on January 28, 1867. He became a “private Hebrew teacher” (as his occupation was described in his children’s birth records). The Beidners had lived in Brzesko for many generations; the gravestones of Efroim Jakob’s father, Josef Beidner (1844-1889), and his grandmother, Keila Beidner (1809-1878), can still be seen […]

Hirsch Baumgarten (January 7, 1861 – January 1, 1938) was born in Łęki Dolne, he was the son of Laser and Dwojra Baumgarten. He most likely moved to Borzęcin after marrying Ryfka Sattler (1857 – June 4, 1932). Ryfka was the daughter of Wolf (Lewek) Sattler, born in Tymowa around 1809, and Borzęcin-born Estera Sattler […]

Born in 1872, Wolf Munz was the eldest child of Berisch Munz and Reisel Nestelgrun, who had lived in Jadowniki. Wolf became a butcher and married Chana Hoffer. They had five children born in 1901-1911. Wolf Munz didn’t live to see his children grow. According to the testimony of his half-brother, Izak Munz, Wolf was […]

In September 2025, it was already for the 11th time, that we organized events commemorating the pre-war Jewish community of Brzesko and vicinity. On September 11, Adam Musiał, the teacher with over 20 years of teaching experience at a Krakow high school, who collaborates with numerous educational and research institutions in Poland and abroad, came […]