Będzin (pronounced: [ˈbɛndʑin]) is a town in south Poland with 59,936 inhabitants (31 Dec 1999). Area 37 km². (With permission, Author: Marek i Ewa Wojciechowscy, http://www. ... (With permission, Author: Marek i Ewa Wojciechowscy, http://www. ... The International Phonetic Alphabet is a phonetic alphabet used by linguists to accurately and uniquely represent each of the wide variety of sounds (phones or phonemes) the human vocal apparatus can produce. ...
Situated in the Silesian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Katowice Voivodship (1975-1998). Silesian voivodship since 1999 Silesia or Silesian Voivodship(1) is an administrative region and local government unit in Poland, established in 1999 out of Katowice, Czętochowa and Bielsko-Biała voivodships as a result of Local Government Reorganisation Act of 1998 (effective 1 January 1999). ... Katowice Voivodship (Polish: województwo katowickie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in years 1975-1998, superseded by Silesian Voivodship. ...
Until World War II, Bedzin had a vibrant Jewish community but in September, 1939 the German Army (Wehrmacht) overran this area, followed by the SS death squads (Einsatzgruppen), who burned the Bedzin synagogue and many of the Jewish inhabitants along with it. Eventually most of the Jews in Bedzin were deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz and exterminated.
Rosensaft was born in Bedzin in Poland and was in his youth active in the Zionist Labor Movement.
He was injured from the fall but walked back to Bedzin, where he was captured again and sent to Auschwitz and several other concentration camps until he was in Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated in 1945.
He was elected by the refugees in the DP camp to the Central Committee of Liberated Jews and served as the chairman of the British sector committee until it was disbanded in 1950.
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