Jewish students of the Brzesko gymnasium

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...

Despite intensive archival research, it has still not been possible to determine what happened to 28 former students and graduates of the Brzesko gymnasium. With all probability, most of them perished during the war, but we couldn’t find any documents...

Research conducted in several archives allowed to establish that 62 former Jewish students of the Brzesko gymnasium were murdered in the Holocaust 1. Nela Beidner Born in Jadowniki on May 16, 1906, daughter of merchant Beidner/Bruh and Sara nee Brandstatter....

Jewish boys from religious families usually started their education at the age of three. At that time, their parents enrolled them in cheders, i.e. elementary religious schools, where the boys mastered the art of reading and writing for the first...