Silberschein, A. 1882-1951
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Information for Authority record
Name (Hebrew)
זילברשין, אברהם
Name (Latin)
Silberschein, A. 1882-1951
Other forms of name
Silberschein, Abraham
זילברשיין, אברהם בן יעקב אליעזר
Date of birth
1882
Date of death
1951
Place of birth
Lʹviv (Ukraine)
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
מקום לידה: לבוב
מקום לידה: Lvov
תאריך לידה עברי: תרמ"ב [1882]
תאריך פטירה עברי: תשי"א [1951].
Sources of Information
- פרקי גליציה, תשי"ז.
- Record enhanced with data from Bibliography of the Hebrew Book database
- Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. Arkhiyon ha-merkazi la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah. Arkhiyon Dr. A. Zilbershain ... 1984:t.p. (Dr. A. Zilbershain) added t.p. (Dr. A. Silberschein [in rom.]) p. 2 (Avraham Zilbershain) p. ii (Abraham Silberschein [in rom.]) p. iii, etc. (b. 1882 in Lvov; d. 12-30-51 in Geneva)
- LC data base, 3-18-87(hdg.: Silberschein, Abraham, 1882-1951)
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Wikipedia description:
Adolf Henryk Silberschein, also known as Abraham Silberschein (born March 30, 1882, in Lwów, Austria-Hungary, today Ukraine, died December 30, 1951, in Geneva, Switzerland) was a Polish-Jewish lawyer, activist of the World Jewish Congress, Zionist, member of the Polish Sejm (1922–1927). During the Holocaust he was a member of the Ładoś Group also called the Bernese Group, an informal cooperation of Jewish organizations and Polish diplomats who fabricated and smuggled illegal Latin American passports to occupied Poland, saving their holders and their families from immediate deportation to German Nazi death camps.
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