Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers
, was born in Krasnosielca son of Pearl Leah Eichelbaum and Benjamin Voron, a shoe maker born also in Krasnosielc.
Until the mid 19th century the town lay within the estate of KrasińskiKrasiński is a surname of Polish, or generally Slavic, origin....
family.
Krasnosielc is a
villageA village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a town or city. Though often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in...
, in
Maków CountyMaków County is a unit of territorial administration and local government in Masovian Voivodeship, east-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Maków Mazowiecki, which...
(
Masovian VoivodeshipMasovian Voivodeship is the largest and most populous of the sixteen Polish provinces, or voivodeships, created in 1999. It occupies of...
), on the river Orzyc, in east-central Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (
gminaThe gmina is the principal unit of territorial division in Poland. It is usually translated as "commune" or "municipality." As of 2004 there were 2,478 gminas...
) called
Gmina KrasnosielcGmina Krasnosielc is a rural gmina in Maków County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland. Its seat is the village of Krasnosielc, which lies approximately north of Maków Mazowiecki and north of Warsaw....
. It lies approximately north of
Maków MazowieckiMaków Mazowiecki is a town in Poland, in Masovian Voivodship. It is the powiat capital of the Maków County .The population is 10,850.The town obtained its town charter in 1421. Before 1939 about 90% of population was Jewish...
and north of
WarsawWarsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River roughly from both the Baltic Sea coast and the Carpathian Mountains. Its population as of 2009 was estimated at 1,709,781, and the Warsaw metropolitan area at approximately 2,785,000...
. Previous names include: Sielc, Siedlec and in . The village has a population of 1,300.
Harry WarnerHarry Morris Warner was an American studio executive, one of the founders of Warner Bros., and a major contributor to the development of the film industry. Along with his three brothers, Warner played a crucial role in the film business and played a key role in establishing Warner Bros...
, co-founder of
Warner Bros.Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (also known as Warner Bros. Pictures, or simply Warner Bros.—the shortened form of the former official, sometimes still used, formal corporate name: Warner Brothers
, was born in Krasnosielca son of Pearl Leah Eichelbaum and Benjamin Voron, a shoe maker born also in Krasnosielc.
History
Until the mid 19th century the town lay within the estate of KrasińskiKrasiński is a surname of Polish, or generally Slavic, origin....
family. The Jews, who began settle there since mid 18th century, made up 60% of its population by 1841. The Jewish district was defined by a legal document according to which, they were obliged to pay rent to count Józef Krasiński. A Jewish kahalKahal is a moshav in the Galilee near Highway 85 in northern Israel. The moshav is a combined agricultural community. It lies at the border of the Upper Galilee and Lower Galilee, north of Lake Kinneret. It belongs to the Mevo'ot HaHermon Regional Council....
was established in Krasnosielc in 1844 following official complaint about improprieties of the kahal in PrzasnyszPrzasnysz is a town in Poland. Located in the Masovian Voivodship, about 110 km north of Warsaw and about 115 km south of Olsztyn, it's the capital of Przasnysz County. It has 18,093 inhabitants . One of the most important towns in Mazovia during Middle Ages. City laws - 1427.-Famous...
. Krasnosielc lost the city rights in 1869 soon after its last Polish owner Karol Krasiński died childless. In 1883 a synagogueA synagogue is a Jewish house of prayer....
was built. The town changed hands a few times before Poland regained its independenceThe Second Polish Republic, Second Commonwealth of Poland or interwar Poland refers to Poland between the two world wars; from the creation of an independent Polish state in the aftermath of World War I, to the invasion of Poland in 1939 by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and the Slovak Republic,...
in 1918.
The Jewish community of Krasnosielc ceased to exist in early September 1939. Following German invasion of Poland, Panzer Division SS Kempf forced the Jews into the Synagogue and massacred them there. A day later, the remainder (mostly men) was machine-gunned at the same location. The anti-Jewish massacre became widely publicised in Berlin as the first of its kind on Polish soil. The perpetrators received a few-year sentences and their superiors were replaced.