Nella Rost (1900–1988) – szkic do portretu

Nella Rost – despite her numerous achievements – has not yet been the subject of a biography. The aim of this article is to summarize the most important information found in sources and scholarly studies concerning her, as well as to highlight her contributions to culture, education, science, and politics. Nella Rost was the daughter of Rabbi Ozjasz Thon, the preacher of Krakow’s Tempel Synagogue, one of the leading Zionist figures in the Polish lands, and a member of the Polish Parliament. She was a teacher at the Hebrew Gymnasium in Krakow, an activist in the Krakow branch of WIZO (Women’s International Zionist Organization), a journalist for Głos Kobiety Żydowskiej (The Voice of the Jewish Woman), deputy head of the Provincial Jewish Historical Commission in the postwar Krakow, and later the head of a similar commission in Stockholm, as well as a collaborator with the World Jewish Congress. Her biography is intertwined with the history of Krakow’s Zionist movement and local press, Jewish women’s movements in the Polish lands, and the early historiography of the Holocaust.