Weinzieher, Salomon
| 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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Weinzieher, Salomon |
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| Date of birth | 1869 |
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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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Będzin |
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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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PL |
| Document | passport of Honduras |
| Fate | perished |
Weinzieher, Salomon (1869–1943) – a Polish doctor of Jewish origin and an MP in the Second Polish Republic
Born in the Polish city of Białystok, which then lay in the Russian partition zone, he went on to graduate from medical university. He lived in Będzin, where he became the director of the local hospital and also a town councillor. As President of the Charitable Society of the Jewish Faith in Będzin, he involved himself in social activities. In the years 1919–1927 and 1938–1939, Weinzieher served as a Member of the Polish Parliament (non-aligned).
During the Second World War, he was imprisoned in the Będzin ghetto, and in 1943 deported to Auschwitz, where he perished.
He had two sons: Jan Jakub (born in 1908), a doctor, who was murdered in Katyn, and Michał, a lawyer, who married the poet Zuzanna Ginczanka soon after the outbreak of the Second World War.