Sosnowiec
Americannoun
noun
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The youngest of eight children, he was born into a Hasidic family as Lejzor Gastfrajnd on March 20, 1925, and grew up in Wodzislaw and later Sosnowiec, Poland, near the German border.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
When all remaining Jews in Sosnowiec were ordered to report to a stadium in August 1942, many of them showed up “as if they were going to a picnic,” Gastfriend wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
The Vatican embassy in Poland said a temporary administrator, Archbishop Adrian Galbas of Katowice, would run the diocese of Sosnowiec until a new bishop is named.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 24, 2023
The Ukrainian artists, he says, have received special Polish Theater Institute grants to work in Sosnowiec and other cities.
From Washington Post • Jan. 6, 2023
The grandfather, Maier Menachem Kajzer, was the only member of his family to survive the Holocaust, and he spent years trying to reclaim their apartment building in Sosnowiec.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2021
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