About

Since early childhood in Tel Aviv, we have been breathing Krakowian pride. Our father, Joseph Bossak, along with our uncle Meir Bosak and our aunt Lusia Schwartz, brought with them a legacy of love, pride and longing for their city, Krakow and especially for the Jewish Krakow.

The Bossak family's roots are in Krakow with family records since 1633 until 1941, when they were deported to the Krakow ghetto, as it appears on the wall of the Bossak House at 3 Plaz Bawol Street in Krakow. Meir Bosak wrote in Tel Aviv a book about Krakow – "Amidst a City's Shadows" which was published in a renewed publication in 2016 with the assistance of the Association of Former Residents of Krakow in Israel. The book contains many of the city's stories, including stories about the synagogue where the family prayed, the Megale Amukot Shul, Krakow legends and more.

The Holocaust, or as it was called in our house "the war", cut the chain of generations of the family in Krakow. Of the 38 descendants of our great-grandfather Zacharias Bossak and his wife Rivka to the Bleicher family, only 7 survived. Among the victims were our grandfather Yehuda Aryeh Leibish Bossak and his wife Esther Bossak to the Fogelhot-Lindenberg family, Avraham Romek Bossak, his wife Bronia and their children Eli and Renia.

Romek wrote a diary in the Plaszow camp under impossible conditions, with great self-risk and a sense of historical mission. The diary that Romek hid in the ground in the barrack's corner in the camp was found after the war and the story of the diary was written by Abba Joseph Bossak in the book "And The Ram Did Not Caught To The Thicket" – the biography of Avraham 1939-1944.