The
following is information from:
“Selected Records from the Polish State Archives in Tarnow Branch, 1931-1980
(bulk 1931-1945)”--USHMM
pp. 5-11
”Public prosecutor's office
in Tarnów; dossiers of investigations and interrogations
of the regional prosecutors. 1931”. Selected cases:
558/31/32
Legal
proceedings against Moses Chaim Grünbaum denouncing Leib Schachner
and Israel Kamma. Deposition: not guilty‐‐acquitted‐‐lack of proof.
21 Oct 1932, he was accused of non‐kosher slaughtering for
professional and financial gain, not under auspices of Jewish rabbi.
Notes of investigation.
“AKTS of the prosecuting attorney of Tarnow”
II Ds
2750/33
Investigation
of denunciation of Dr. Jakob Prawin against the following
leaders of the Jewish community in Dębica: Abraham Goldman;
Hirsch Horowitz; Moses Keprner; Saul Strauss; and
Abraham
Storcow for extortion and defamation of Dawid Pravin, retired
railroad station master in Chorzlów and Mielec. The denounced
were conspiring to extort money from the widow for
allowing
the deceased to be buried in the Dębica Jewish cemetery. Investigative
reports of eight witnesses to the machinations of the accused.
Disposition ‐ discontinuance. Fees for burials are
assigned according
to the financial status of the family of the deceased. Discontinuance
because the fee imposed on the Prawin family was not too
high; it fell between the 10‐800ZT frame.
Ds
3615/33
Investigation
in the case of Aron Seidel in charge of the Jewish Community
in Ropczyce, anonymously accused of appropriation of land
around the Klaus synogogue (the conflict is 60 years old). Disposition
‐ no investigation.
Ds
2455/34
Case of
Chaim Engländer and others. Concerns elections for Jewishrepresentation of
opposition party B.B.W.R. in Tarnów. The JewishCourier informed the readers
that there were 1000 fictional voters registered. Because of those votes the
pro‐government party lost and the Socialist‐Zionist party won. The list was the work of Chaim Engländer,
Chaim Aberdam, etc. Mandel Halpern wants the
irregularity
investigated. This Mandel Halpern doesn't exist in the
Kahal
registers. The Jewish officials reminded not to let anyone
without
papers to vote.
Ds
2287/34
Case of
David Bierenbaum (accused of abuse of voting rights within the Jewish Community
Council). Accused of trying to influence the outcome of the election to the
Jewish community representatives in Tarnów by pretending to be Bernard Bieber
(who was a registered voter). Discontinuance: objection overruled.
Ds
1423/34
Case of
David Roth Kopf (baker) accused by Nathan Müller of the defamation
of the Torah by turning his back toward him (torah was behind
them). Disposition: discontinuance; groundless accusation.
II Ds
2/34
Case of
broken windows in the house of Pinkas Kreiswirth (anti‐
Jewish
activities of the National Party members) on 20 Dec 1933 in Jadowiniki.
Suspects unknown. Already third such incident
happened
in this village. Damage: 10 zł (around $2). Disposition:
discontinuance,
impossibility of finding the perpetrator to be
indicted.
III Ds
2068/34
Case of
Chaim Engel, rabbi from Radomysł Wiełki against Jakob Pelz from RW, 1934
(for spreading rumors undermining the office of state officials); for spreading
anonymous letters allegedly written by Chaim Engel to his wife to district
offices in Mielec requesting the dismissal of the rabbi from his post with the
Kahal. Jakob Pelz accuses the Rabbi of bribingr the officials to let him charge
high prices for the ritual killing of cattle and poultry and uses the money for
personal use; taking $200 for granting a certain Mendel Ebenhon the job of
butcher, etc; pages and pages of investigative reports.
III Ds
4503/34
12 October 1935. Investigation of Fryderyk Jungerman in the case of
Growski of harming Berta Appelbaum (17 Nov. 1933) and for giving
false evidence in her case against Stanislaw Gilowski, sent to the Court
of Appeals in Kraków.
Case of
Edward Appelbaum and Berta Appelbaum (widow of the attorney
in Tarnów) against Fryderek Jungerman reviewed by the court of
appeals in Kraków. Court refused to review the case of
Berta
Appelbaum against Stanislaw Gilowski who sold some buildings
belonging to the Appelbaums, F. Jungerman, and others.
Case of
Izrael Unger, rabbi in Zabno, plaintiff: Abraham Naugot. Argument
over burial plot. Naugot objects to assigining a spot by the
plaintiff's mother to another woman. After that: Izrael Unger
allegedly
harmed the business of the baker Naugot and thus transgressed
his official capacity; the rabbi had declared that the goods of
Naugot are under "shaal" (czunlt). Disposition: accused
not
guilty criminally, but spiritually for not performing in good faith his
religious duties.
Case of
unknown perpetrators, broken windows at Wiktor Kleinberger
in Toponin, district Brzesko, not solved.
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