I currently live in Krakow, Poland and was in the Kazimierz area (on Szeroka Street) today. I took a photo of a granite memorial stone, outside a former synagogue on Szeroka Street and thought the names might be of interest to people here.

This former synagogue, at 24 Szeroka Street, is called The Old Synagogue; it's a branch of the Krakow Historical Museum now, but part of the building lived its life post-war as a series of Polish shops.

The stone is an uncarved, blank cube of granite, with no plaque upon it or its pedestal/base. But when I looked closer at one side, what I thought was an advertisement someone carelessly slapped on it, turned out be a listing of what looked like Polish-Jewish names and at the bottom, handwritten, it had the year 1943.

It was a laminated piece of paper, with masking tape in the corners, with the following names on it:

Tadeusz Aniol-Zagorski
Francisek Baraniuk-Frantuk
Adam Doroszczak
Emil Dziedzic
Feliks Gajewski
Jozef Gaweda
Piotr Grudzicki
Tadeusz Homa
Arkadiusz Jagus
Feliks Jener
Henrik Jurkiewicz
Stanislaw Kaczynski
Mieczyslaw Kossek
Jozef Kawczyk
Wladyslaw Futak Gukanski
Stanislaw Miedzik
Roman Pasternak
Zdzslaw Pasternak
Franciszik Potnadlo
Mieczyslaw Sroka
Wincenty Struminski
Eugeniusz Stus
Wladyslaw Szczurek
Miesczyslaw Szucki
Jozef Scislo
Zdzislaw Tadka
Wadyslaw Toluczek
Jozef Wciera
Zbiginew Wojakowski
Roman Zaremba

At the top a heading said:

Polegli za Ojczyzne

I do not speak Polish, am not Jewish and have only just arrived here to live. I cannot translate the words and could not ask (the museum was closed when I was there today). I hope I have typed the names properly. I thought the list might be helpful to someone searching for their Polish or Jewish roots.

I will try and find a place to post the photo, possibly at Flikr, blown up so that all can read the names.

Szeroka street in Kazimierz was originally the center of Jewish life in Krakow and is where, before the Jews of Krakow were taken to the Podgorze Ghetto further away during the 1939-1945 war, many lived and worked and prayed for centuries. This is where Schindler's list was filmed (even though the actual WWII Jewish ghetto eventually ended up across the river in Podgorze).