Photograph of Aleksander, Bronisława and Józef Mamelok

The photograph - according to the description in the hand of Halina née Baruch - of the Mamelok brothers: Halina's husband Józef (on the right) and Aleksander (on the left) and their sister-in-law Bronisława Mamelok (in the description of the photograph on the reverse there are additional markings suggesting that the images of individual persons are accompanied by additional markers; however, there are none on the obverse). | Aleksander Jerzy Mamelok lived in Warsaw; he was born in 1868 and died in 1932. He probably converted to Protestantism. The obituaries after his death (from Kurier Warszawski [Warsaw Courier], nos 350, 351, 353) state that he was an engineer, director of the Czechoslovak Joint Stock Company Huta Poldi in Warsaw, a knight of the Order of the White Lion (the highest Czechoslovak state decoration). And that he was a sailor - one of the founders and a long-standing member of the board of the Yacht-Klub of Poland (still functioning today). | Unfortunately, we do not know much about Mirosław Mamelok's wife, just as we do not know much about her husband (see the note to photograph MPOLIN-A25.1.44). The wife was not buried with her husband; the surviving gravestone of Mirosław Mamelok (one may assume that he was a family member) shows only one name and dates of life: 1.11.1867-1.12. 1913 (https://cemetery.jewish.org.pl/id_31683/size_normal/photo.jpg, accessed 1.09.2021). We do not know her date of birth, but we know when she died and that her maiden name was Kon - from an obituary which appeared in Kurier Warszawski [Warsaw Courier](evening edition of 19.01.1935, p. 9) and it read: The funeral will be held from the Funeral Home on Okopowa Street on the 20th of this month, at 10 o'clock in the morning. || 61791 r. The birth certificate of Bronisława Kon, or rather - children, she was Cecylia's twin, born in Warsaw on 5 April 1870, has survived. | Maybe she was born not in Warsaw, but in Stawiszyn (not far from Kalisz), ten years later, and her surname was entered in her birth certificate as Can (document from the State Archive in Kalisz, Civil Status Records of the Synagogue District in Stawiszyn, act no. 19 from 1880, see https://www.szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/en/jednostka/-/jednostka/11960346?p_p_id=Jednostka&_Jednostka_delta=1&_Jednostka_cur=13, accessed 22.07.2021). | PK