Given name: Aleksander Zysie Family name: Frydman (7)

(1)

'a leader of the orthodox religious party Agudat Israel; on 23 July 1942, during the meeting of underground activists, he was against active resistance'

(2)

Gave a speech at M. Kaminer's grave on behalf of the Orthodox Jews. Schools Patronage representative - spoke out at a celebration of the Commission of Religious Affairs - the chairman.

(3)

before the war he was the general secretary of Agudat Israel in Poland and he headed orthodox schooling; he was a talented journalist, the editor of orthodox magazines and simultaneously a Hebrew lecturer; as a representative, the leading activist of the orthodox 'Agudat Israel' he belonged to The Social Council of the JOINT ([American] Jewish Distribution Committee) in the Warsaw ghetto; he also headed religious-orthodox schools in the Warsaw ghetto; he died in one of camps in the Lublin region

(4)

Put his signature under the memorial concerning the care for the remains of the poor Jews - March 1942

(5)

pre-war general secretary of the orthodox party Agudas Israel; 15 June 1941 he resigns from (social) work in the Judenrat; head of the Commission for Religious Affairs of the Judenrat (9 March 1942)

(6)

a Judenrat member

(7)

Popular and wise speaker during the meetings of the intelligentsia and activists of the Warsaw Ghetto

(4)

Documents from Ringelblum's Archive, part I

(5)

Czerniakow, Adam, Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

(1) 203, (2) 101/3, III 2/2, 29/2, (3) 95,144,145,219, (4) 119, (5) 193; 258, 260, (6) 49, (7) s.69