Given name: Józef Family name: Gitler

A member of the 'Centos' (Central Organisation for Orphan Care) board of directors. A graduate of the Law, Social and Economics Department of the Polish Free University, an activist of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP); from 1923, the head of the accounts department of the 'Centos'. In the ghetto, a worker for voluntary causes, an educator and a political activist; a prisoner of the camp in Bergen-Belsen /1943-1945/.