Józef Korngut's identity card

New documents in the digital archive of Jews from Czarny Dunajec include Józef Dawid Korngut's pre-war identity card and copies of his and his wife's birth certificates.

Copies of valuable mementos of the Jewish community from Czarny Dunajec were donated to the archive by Israel Koren, who visited Poland in August 2024. Israel was born in 1949 in Israel, where his father and his wife had arrived a year earlier. His parents were born in Czarny Dunajec, fled the war to the east and survived the Holocaust together there. After the war, thanks to the help of the Jewish Agency, they got to a camp for displaced persons (DP) in Wels, Austria, and from there to Israel. During all this wandering, they managed to keep the original documents, and the most valuable is Józef Dawid Korngut's identity card with his photo and signature. The document shows the date of birth as December 24, 1901, although his son claims that his father maintained throughout his life that he was born on December 24, 1900.

The ID was issued on June 5, 1939 in Czarny Dunajec by mayor Tadeusz Bryjak. It shows that Józef Dawid Korngut was a merchant before the war, was of average height, had brown eyes and blond hair.

A partially preserved copy of the birth certificate confirms that his parents were Izrael Moses Korngut and Leni née Bober.

According to the fully preserved copy of the birth certificate, Józef's wife - his cousin - Genendel Minka Korngut was born in Czarny Dunajec on February 6, 1905. Her father was Efraim Korngut, a merchant from Czarny Dunajec, the brother of Izrael Moses, and her mother was Chawa Korngut née Horowitz, born in Zborov near Bardejov (in present-day Slovakia).