Schipper, Ignacy
| Surname, Name The spelling of names follows “Spis imion żydowskich” [The list of Jewish first names] (Warszawa 1928), as it was the only means to avoid the doubling of people on the list. Exception was made for famous individuals whose names are widely known in another form than that proposed in “Spis”.
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Schipper, Ignacy |
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| Date of birth | 1884 |
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Location The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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Warsaw |
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State The country with which the applicant was associated. This is most often the country of which he or she was a citizen. Many cases involve a presumption of the applicant’s citizenship. People named on the list have been assigned a citizenship according to the day of the outbreak of the Second World War in their countries of origin or residence (in the case of Austria and Czechoslovakia these dates are respectively March 11 and September 28, 1938; in the case of Germany the date is prior to the NSDAP coming to power). Cases of citizenship deprivation by European countries in the years 1918–1939 have not been included. The last known citizenship has been used for stateless individuals.
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| Document | passport of Paraguay |
| Fate | perished |
Schiper, Ignacy or Schipper, Izaak Ignacy (1884–1943) – a lawyer, historian, orientalist, political activist, and an MP in inter-war Poland
Born on 9 November 1884 in the Polish township of Tarnów, which then lay in the Austrian partition zone.
He graduated from the secondary school in Tarnów. As a young man, he was interested in the social life of Jews. He studied law in Kraków and Vienna. However, his growing interest in historical research led him to abandon a career in the law. He was involved in socialism and Zionism from his youth. Between 1919 and 1927, he served as a Member of the Polish Parliament, while also holding a position in the senior leadership of the Marxist-Zionist “Poale Zion” party. Ignacy Schiper worked at the Institute of Judaic Sciences in Warsaw, and was appointed Director of the Jewish Academic House in the Praga district of Warsaw. He was also a member of the authorities of the World Zionist Organization.
During the Second World War, he lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, at 16 Kupiecka Street, with his wife, two daughters, and son-in-law. As an employee of the archives of the Jewish commune, he managed to avoid deportation to Treblinka, while later he concealed himself in a bunker in the tenement house in which he lived. Following the suppression of the uprising in the Ghetto, he was deported together with his family to Majdanek; his wife and daughters were murdered there shortly after their arrival, while he himself died of exhaustion on 10 June 1943.