Jacob Wygodzki

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Jacob Wygodzki

Jakub Wygodzki (1856 – 1941; Lithuanian: Jokūbas Vygodskis, Hebrew: יעקב ויגודסקי‎) was a Polish-Lithuanian Jewish politician, activist and a medical doctor.

Wygodzki finished a military medical academy in Imperial Russia, and became an important Zionist acitivist in the Jewish community in late 19th century Vilna (Vilnius, Wilno). He supported Lithuanian independence, and joined the Lithuanian government as their Minister for Jewish Affairs. After Wilno was annexed by Poland (see Republic of Central Lithuania), he became the member of the Bloc of National Minorities party and a deputy to the Polish parliament (Sejm).

He published medical articles as well as essays in Polish, Yiddish and German. He also published on the Jewish theater, and was an important supporter of the Jewish theater in Wilno.

After Wilno was occupied by Nazi Germany, for a time he was a member of the Vilna Ghetto's Judenrat. After he refused to further collaborate with the Germans, he was tortured and killed in the Lukiškės Prison in 1941.^[1]

References

↑ Kruk, Herman; Harshav, Benjamin (2002). The Last Days of the Jerusalem of Lithuania: Chronicles From the Vilna Ghetto and the Camps, 1939-1944. Yale University Press. pp. 53 n.22. ISBN 978-0-300-04494-2.

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Crimes	Ninth Fort Kaunas June 1941 Kaunas 29 October 1941 Ninth Fort November 1941 Ponary

Prominent victims	Zelig Kalmanovich Elchonon Wasserman Jacob Wygodzki

Major perpetrators	Erich Ehrlinger Karl Jäger Ernst Kaltenbrunner Hinrich Lohse Franz Murer Adrian von Renteln Alfred Rosenberg Rudolf Joachim Seck Franz Walter Stahlecker Martin Weiss

Nazi occupation and organizations	Einsatzgruppen Reichskommissariat Ostland Rollkommando Hamann

Collaborators	Algimantas Dailidė Algirdas Klimaitis Lithuanian Security Police Schutzmannschaft TDA Ypatingasis būrys

Ghettos, camps and prisons	HKP 562 Kaunas fort ring Kovno Ghetto Lukiškės Prison Marcinkonys Ghetto Šiauliai Ghetto Vilna Ghetto

Resistance and survivors	Fareinigte Partizaner Organizacje Jay M. Ipson Abba Kovner Ephraim Oshry Ona Šimaitė Abraham Sutzkever

Documentation, concealment, and justice	Einsatzgruppen Trial Jäger Report Sonderaktion 1005

Righteous among the Nations	Kazys Binkis Karl Plagge Chiune Sugihara Lithuanian Righteous among the Nations

Occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany History of the Jews in Lithuania

Persondata
Name	Wygodzki, Jakub
Alternative names
Short description	Polish-Lithuanian politician
Date of birth	1856
Place of birth
Date of death	1941
Place of death

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