Szapiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include:
Kowalski is the second most common surname in Poland. Kowalski surname is derived from the word kowal, meaning "[black]smith".
Wiśniewski is the third most common surname in Poland. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of locations named Wiśniewa, Wiśniewo, Wiśniowa, Wiśniew. It is related to the following surnames in other languages:
Szymański is the ninth most common surname in Poland with about 114 075 people sharing it by 2015.
Kantor is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. Situated in the city of Łódź, and originally intended as a preliminary step upon a more extensive plan of creating the Judenfrei province of Warthegau, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial centre, manufacturing war supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the Wehrmacht. The number of people incarcerated in it was increased further by the Jews deported from Nazi-controlled territories.
Kaminski or Kamiński is a surname of Polish origin. It is the sixth most common surname in Poland.
Rabinovich or Rabinovitch, is a Russian Ashkenazi Jewish surname, Slavic for "son of the rabbi". The Polish/Lithuanian equivalents are Rabinowitz or Rabinowicz.
Cukierman is a Jewish surname, spelled in the Polish way, parallel to the Yiddish/German Jewish surname Zukerman. Notable people with the surname include:
Polak is the Polish noun for a Pole. It is also a surname. In 2020 there were over 21,500 persons with the surname in Poland.
Zeitlin is a matronymic Jewish surname. It is derived from the female name Zeitl according to the rules of Slavic languages, with the possessive suffix '-in' and literally means "Zeitl's".
Fridman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Werfel is a German and Jewish surname, mentioned in Denmark, Poland, Czech Republic. Notable people with the surname include:
Janowski is a Polish surname. It is related to a number of surnames in other languages.
Lech is a Polish masculine given name. Lech was the name of the legendary founder of Poland. Lech also appears as a surname, with 14,289 people having the name in Poland.
Kushnir is a Ukrainian and Jewish surname, meaning furrier.
Zawadzki is a Polish and Ukrainian surname. It is a toponymic surname derived from one of the numerous locations named Zawada or Zawady.
Sawicki is a Polish surname. Other language equivalents:
Witkowski is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hanka Sawicka, real name Hanna Krystyna Szapiro, pseudonym Hanka was a Polish communist of Jewish background active in the Polish underground, represented in Polish People's Republic propaganda as the first leader of the Union of Youth Struggle.
Szpiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include: