Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Généalo-J; revue française de généalogie juive
Angaben zur Quelle:
145 (2021) 6-26
Keywords:
Garfinkiel family
;
Jews History
;
Jewish families
Abstract:
It was only at the end of the 18th century that Jews could settle in Radom, central Poland. But the Community did not grow until the middle of the 19th century when it was granted the authorization to build a synagogue, appoint a rabbi who could maintain a civil register and own a land to bury the dead. It was around this time that my paternal great-grandparents moved to Radom. My father David Garfinkiel, the youngest of ten children, was born in 1902 into a family of artists – sculptors, painters, photographers – but he was the only one to study at the Beaux-Arts in Krakow and Warsaw before moving to Paris in 1932. Jews played an important role in the economic and financial development of Radom, and at the beginning of 1940, the community was strong of 30 000 inhabitants, or 1/3 of the population. Almost all of them were exterminated during the Shoah, including the Garfinkiel family. The pictorial work of David Garfinkiel, who died in Paris in 1970, was deeply marked by this tragedy.
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