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Captions translated by Lance Ackerfeld

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Editorial staff



Page
Combined Sosnowiec
and Bedzin émigrés
committee

Page
“Book of Sosnowiec”
committee


Page
M. Sh. Gashury
(Brukner)


Page 11
Map of the city of
Sosnowiec and
surroundings

Page 13
The corner of three
empires (Germany,
Austria, Russia)

Page 14
Map of Sosnowiec
and its suburbs


Page 16
The Schoena Palace
near the 1st of May Street


Page 18
The Sielecki Castel,
a view from the park


Page 19
The Sielecki Park
in its new layout


Page 19
The coffee shop
in the garden near
Zeromskiego Street

Page 19
Sosnowiec – the large
“Warsaw-Vienna” terminal


Page 21
A view of the “Renard”
coal mine in Sosnowiec


Page 28
The “Count Renard”
rolling mill in Sosnowiec


Page 29
The manufacturing plants
belonging to Holdszynski
[a Jew] and his sons

Page 29
The workers quarter
near Staszica Street
in Sosnowiec

Page 31
Sosnowiec – metallurgy
production plants


Page 31
The demographic layout
according to social status
in Sosnowiec in 1939

Page 37
Rabbi
Reb Icchakl Glikman
from Sosnowiec

Page 40
Sosnowiec,
the Great Synagogue in
Dekerta Street

Page 40
Sosnowiec – house in
Modrzejowska Street


Page 42
Garden near Czerwona-
Zaglembie Street
in Sosnowiec

Page 43
Sosnowiec – Czerwona-Zaglembie Street


Page 45
Sosnowiec,
Victory Avenue


Page 45
Typical architecture from the 1st of May Street


Page 45
The entrance to the
southern side of the city of
Sosnowiec

Page 45
Kowalska Street



Page 46
Warszawska Street



Page 46
The Warszawski
coffee shop


Page 47
A section of Glówna Street and corner of Modrzejowska Street

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