Given name: Emil Family name: Weitz

He came from Tarnow, he sponsored the orphanage 'Dobra Wola', he was energetic, dynamic and the biggest Polish producer of brushes, 'the king of the brushes'. He had a capital of a few millions of Polish zlotys, he allocated the money in creating jobs and thus chances for survival for the Jews. There are several rumours about him, e.g. when he came to Warsaw he distributed the money for here and there, he never refused to help those in need. Turkow did not know him personally but the name was familiar; he knew that Weitz gave money to the underground, also for the Joint (American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee).