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Hirsch Barenblat

Holocaust survivor and Ghetto policeman (born 1914) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hirsch Barenblat
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Henryk Hirsz Hanoch Barenblat (born 1914, Będzin, date of death unknown) was a Polish-born Israeli musician and conductor, known[according to whom?] for his role as head of the Jewish Ghetto Police in the Będzin Ghetto and subsequent legal cases in Poland and Israel which ended with his acquittal by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1964, on the grounds of insufficient evidence. He'd served three months of a five-year sentence.[1][2]

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He studied piano at the Silesian Music Conservatory in Katowice. In 1953–1956 he was a tutor and conductor at the State Operetta in Gliwice. He also worked in a theater in Ostrava. He then settled in Israel and was the conductor of the Israeli National Opera. In 1955 he was decorated Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland. In 1960 he moved to Germany where he worked as a theater conductor in Cologne.

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