Given name: Majer Family name: Bałaban

a historian, long-standing professor at Lvov University and Warsaw University; a member of dozens of scientific associations; a member of Agudat Israel, he took part in the works of Commission for Cemeteries and Religious Affairs; deported from the ghetto in the summer 1942; he was then released from the Umschlagplatz by the direct order of high German authorities, probably from Cracow; died of a heart attack in January 1943 in the ghetto