Given name: Leon Family name: Kac (2)

  • (1, 2) YES
  • (1, 2) Male
  • (1) Leon , (2) Leon
  • (1) Kac , (2) Kac
  • (1) January 1943
  • (1, 2) No information
  • (1)

    the Befelstelle hairdresser; he was shot by Brand's order

    (2)

    A barber, had his own barbershop at Zelazna Street No. 103, the most popular and influential among the Jewish workers of the Befehlstelle, short, ca. 150 cm tall, freckle-faced, fair ginger hair, a long scar on the right cheek, sharp, penetrating glance, narrow lips, did not know his father, born in poverty, his mother died, six years old - in an orphanage, ten years old - hard work in a tailor's workshop, hunger, violence. Leon starts working in Moszek's barbershop located in Niska Street near the tailor's workshop. After many years Leon married Moszek's daughter - Rachel, who had three brothers. After Moszek's death he bacame a barber in Smocza Street - poverty. Survived in the ghetto, suffered from typhus.

    • (1) the rich
    • (2) craftsmen
  • (1)

    Warm does not remember his surname - writes of him Reicher; IIop2YV03/413,

  • (1)

    Warm, Ber; fragments of testimonies in: Michal Grynberg, Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, transl. Philip Boehm, Picador, New York, 2003.

    (2)

    Reicher, Edward W ostrym świetle dnia. Dziennik żydowskiego lekarza 1939-1945 (In Broad Daylight. A Diary of a Jewish Doctor 1939 - 1945)

  • (1) 19, (2) 52