Róża Berger

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Roza Berger the only verified named victim of the 1945 Kraków pogrom[1], was born Reizel Leser in Kraków on 20 June 1889[2]. She was married in Kraków on 17 September 1911 to Josef Berger. She escaped Kraków during the war and was deported to Auschwitz in August of 1944 (prisoner identification number 89186) with her daughter and granddaughter. After the liberation of Auschwitz she returned to Kraków [3] [4] where she was shot and killed while standing behind closed doors in her home[5] during the Pogrom on 11 August 1945[1]. She was buried in the New Kraków Jewish Cemetery at 55 Miodowa street[6].

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  1. ^ a b Anna Cichopek (2003). "The Cracow pogrom of August1945", in Joshua D. Zimmerman: Contested Memories: Poles and Jews During the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. Rutgers University Press. 
  2. ^ The State Archive in Kraków /Archiwum Państwowe w Krakowie: "Jewish Civil Registry of Kraków", Archive 29 Fond 1472, 1889, birth (AKT)#531
  3. ^ (1945) "15. Second List Of Jews Surviving In Poland (Compiled In Krakow)", in Jewish Agency For Palestine Search Bureau For Missing Relatives: Pinkas HaNitzolim I -- Register of Jewish Survivors I. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press, 128. 
  4. ^ (1945) in Jewish Agency For Palestine Search Bureau For Missing Relatives: Pinkas HaNitzolim II -- Register of Jewish Survivors II. Jerusalem: Hamadpis Liphshitz Press, 17. 
  5. ^ (Polish) Tomasz Konopka "Śmierc na ulicach Krakowa w latach 1945-1947 w materiale archiwalnym krakowskiego Zakladu Medycyny Sadowej" - "Pamięć i Sprawiedliwość", IPN, 2005, nr 2, p. 148
  6. ^ New Jewish Cemetery Burial Register, Krakow: Burial Register as indexed at Jewish Records Indexing - Poland", Surname: BERGER, Given Name: Reizel, Date: 11-Aug-1945, Section: 12, Row: 5, Grave: 14, Page: 210, Sort: 1