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{{Short description|Polish businessperson and philantropist}} {{Short description|Polish businessperson and philanthropist}}
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| occupation = Co-founder of curtain factory, philantropist | occupation = Co-founder of curtain factory, philanthropist
| years_active = 1924-1939 | years_active = 1924-1939
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'''Marja Horowitz''', known as ''Miriam Horowitz''<ref name = "Informator">{{Cite web |title=Будинок, де в часи Голокосту брат із сестрою скоїли самогубство. Історія будівлі на вул. Шухевича в Коломиї |url=https://kl.informator.ua/2024/02/05/budynok-de-v-chasy-golokostu-brat-iz-sestroyu-skoyily-samogubstvo-istoriya-budivli-na-vul-shuhevycha-v-kolomyyi/#google_vignette}}</ref> (1892 – 25 October 1942) was the Polish-Jewish ], co-founder of the curtain factory in ] and ]. '''Marja Horowitz''', known as ''Miriam Horowitz''<ref name = "Informator">{{Cite web |title=Будинок, де в часи Голокосту брат із сестрою скоїли самогубство. Історія будівлі на вул. Шухевича в Коломиї |date=5 February 2024 |url=https://kl.informator.ua/2024/02/05/budynok-de-v-chasy-golokostu-brat-iz-sestroyu-skoyily-samogubstvo-istoriya-budivli-na-vul-shuhevycha-v-kolomyyi/#google_vignette}}</ref> (1892 – 25 October 1942) was the Polish-Jewish ], co-founder of the curtain factory in ] and ].


==Biography==
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Marja Horowitz was born on 1892 in ] in the family of the inheritors of dynasty of rabbis ruled in ].<ref name = "YadVashem">{{Cite web|url=https://collections.yadvashem.org/en/names/426540|title=Marja Horowitz|website=@yadvashem}}</ref><ref>Борис С. Арсен; Моя гірка правда – Я і Холокост на Прикарпатті - Надвірна: Надвірнянська друкарня, 2004. &nbsp;— 366&nbsp;с.</ref>

In the beginning of 1920s Horowitz was a member of Society of Rigorous Students in Jewish Academic Home in ].<ref>{{Cite web |title=XLVI sprawozdanie roczne Wydziału Towarzystwa Rygorozantów (Żydowski Dom Akademicki) we Lwowie za rok akademicki 1924/1925 |date=1925 |url=https://obc.opole.pl/dlibra/publication/15148/edition/14086}}</ref>

In 1924, Marja Horowitz with her brother Markus Horowitz and brother-in-law Josef Horowitz firstly established a curtain factory in Kolomyia.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://crispa.uw.edu.pl/object/files/318784/display/Default?pageNumber=670|title=CRISPA|website=crispa.uw.edu.pl}}</ref><ref name="YouTube">{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g83YSe6cblA|title=коломийська швейна фабрика|date=August 23, 2015|via=YouTube}}</ref> It was located in the central part of town. Her factory was famous for export of curtains to ], ] and the ].<ref name="YouTube" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Targi Wschodnie 1935 : Lwów, Stanisławów, Tarnopol|date=1935 |url=https://obc.opole.pl/dlibra/publication/14714/edition/13713}}</ref> About 180 female and male labours worked in her factory, and more than 300 ones worked distantly - summarly, there were from 400 till 700 labours in Horowitz's factory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Цінна для світу: 9 імен з історії жіночого руху Коломиї, які варто знати кожному|date=11 May 2024 |url=https://kl.informator.ua/2024/05/11/78445/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/Kolomea/history.html|title=KehilaLink Kolomyya, Ukraine|website=kehilalinks.jewishgen.org}}</ref> The factory used 30 curtain machines from ], purchased by Marja Horowitz in 1925.<ref>''С.&nbsp;Андріїшин.'' Коломия, 1939-1941 / Коломия: Вік, 2013.&nbsp;— С.&nbsp;125</ref>

In 1928, Marja Horowitz was included into the Executive Committee of the mobile industrial exhibition in Kolomyia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tygodnik Pokucki Zjednoczenie : R.2, nr 26 (24 czerwca 1928)|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=4&uid=86112683}}</ref>

Marja was a philanthropist: she donated to the Jewish National Kitchen during 1920s and 1930s<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 6, nr 6 (7 lutego 1930)|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=3&uid=71922060}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 3, nr 38 (23 grudnia 1927)|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=3&uid=71921960}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 6, nr 9 (28 lutego 1930)|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=3&uid=71922066}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 4, nr 40 (21 grudnia 1928) + nadz. dod. filmowy|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=3&uid=71922044}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 8, nr 5 (2 grudnia 1932)|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=4&uid=71922130}}</ref> and financially helped the Society for the Care of Poor Jewish Children in April 1927.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 3, nr 15 (15 kwietnia 1927)|url=https://academica.edu.pl/reading/readSingle?page=3&uid=71921937}}</ref> Also, Maria Horowitz was a supporter and sympathizer of the Society of the Association of Blind Workers.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/Content/364041|title=XV zjednoczenie pracowników Organu zjednoczenia pracowników niewidomych}}</ref>

On January 10, 1934 her factory was entered into the state trade register by the decision of the District Court in Kolomyia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gazeta Lwowska. 1934, nr 38 (10 lutego 1934)|work=Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 501 V czasop. |date=10 February 1934 |url=https://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/publication/50636/edition/44917 |last1=Wareński |first1=Aleksander Red }}</ref>

On August 11, 1937 ] awarded Marja Horowitz the ] in honor of the field of professional activity.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Zarządzenie o nadaniu Srebrnego i Brązowego Krzyża Zasługi M.P. 1937 nr 187 poz. 309|url=https://isap.sejm.gov.pl/isap.nsf/DocDetails.xsp?id=WMP19371870309}}</ref>

In 1939, her curtain factory was taken over and nationalized by Soviet regime after the ].<ref name="YouTube" />

During the ] in 1941, at the Horowitz's curtain factory, the Nazis collected and sorted the furs and jewelry confiscated from the Jews by ''Judenrat'' ruled by Marja's brother Markus Horowitz, which were then sent to ].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/galicia/gal002.html|title=Extermination of the Jews of Kolomyja and District|website=www.jewishgen.org}}</ref>

Marja Horowitz was died on October 25, 1942 with her brother Markus, committing suicide in Judenrat's main office.<ref name="memories">{{Cite web|url=https://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/kolomyya/kol414.html|title=Kolmyya, Ukraine (Pages 414-425)|website=www.jewishgen.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kolomyya-forever-en.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/|title=Kolomyya Forever, by Ariah Suchman|website=kolomyya-forever-en.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com}}</ref> They were buried in Jewish cemetery in ].<ref name="memories"/>

== Memory ==
In May 2020, the author of the project of the first "Heavenly Hundred" Museum in Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk, the author of Ukraine's largest painting "Chronicle of Ukraine", an artist from Ivano-Frankivsk Roman Bonchuk created a mural in honor of Marja Horowitz on the wall of the house, where her factory was.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pik.net.ua/2020/08/12/35726/|title=Швейна машинка "SINGER" і Коломия: що спільного?}}</ref>

In 2024, she was included into the list of female people who influenced the cultural and political life of Kolomyia at the beginning of the 20th century.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://postimpreza.org/texts/9-zhinok-iaki-vplynuly-na-kulturne-i-politychne-zhyttia-kolomyi|title=9 жінок, які вплинули на культурне і політичне життя Коломиї}}</ref>

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Polish businessperson and philanthropist
Marja Horowitz
Mural of Marja Horowitz in Kolomyia
Born1892
Kolomea, Austria-Hungary (now - Kolomyia, Ukraine)
Died25 October 1942(1942-10-25) (aged 50)
Kolomea, Third Reich
NationalityJewish
CitizenshipAustria-Hungary
Second Polish Republic
Occupation(s)Co-founder of curtain factory, philanthropist
Years active1924-1939
Awards (1937)

Marja Horowitz, known as Miriam Horowitz (1892 – 25 October 1942) was the Polish-Jewish female entrepreneur, co-founder of the curtain factory in Kolomyia and philanthropist.

Biography

Marja Horowitz was born on 1892 in Kolomea in the family of the inheritors of dynasty of rabbis ruled in Stanislau.

In the beginning of 1920s Horowitz was a member of Society of Rigorous Students in Jewish Academic Home in Lwów.

In 1924, Marja Horowitz with her brother Markus Horowitz and brother-in-law Josef Horowitz firstly established a curtain factory in Kolomyia. It was located in the central part of town. Her factory was famous for export of curtains to Galicia, Europe and the United States. About 180 female and male labours worked in her factory, and more than 300 ones worked distantly - summarly, there were from 400 till 700 labours in Horowitz's factory. The factory used 30 curtain machines from Singer Corporation, purchased by Marja Horowitz in 1925.

In 1928, Marja Horowitz was included into the Executive Committee of the mobile industrial exhibition in Kolomyia.

Marja was a philanthropist: she donated to the Jewish National Kitchen during 1920s and 1930s and financially helped the Society for the Care of Poor Jewish Children in April 1927. Also, Maria Horowitz was a supporter and sympathizer of the Society of the Association of Blind Workers.

On January 10, 1934 her factory was entered into the state trade register by the decision of the District Court in Kolomyia.

On August 11, 1937 Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski awarded Marja Horowitz the Silver Cross of Merit in honor of the field of professional activity.

In 1939, her curtain factory was taken over and nationalized by Soviet regime after the Soviet invasion of Poland.

During the German occupation of Ukraine in 1941, at the Horowitz's curtain factory, the Nazis collected and sorted the furs and jewelry confiscated from the Jews by Judenrat ruled by Marja's brother Markus Horowitz, which were then sent to Lemberg.

Marja Horowitz was died on October 25, 1942 with her brother Markus, committing suicide in Judenrat's main office. They were buried in Jewish cemetery in Kolomyia.

Memory

In May 2020, the author of the project of the first "Heavenly Hundred" Museum in Ukraine in Ivano-Frankivsk, the author of Ukraine's largest painting "Chronicle of Ukraine", an artist from Ivano-Frankivsk Roman Bonchuk created a mural in honor of Marja Horowitz on the wall of the house, where her factory was.

In 2024, she was included into the list of female people who influenced the cultural and political life of Kolomyia at the beginning of the 20th century.

References

  1. "Будинок, де в часи Голокосту брат із сестрою скоїли самогубство. Історія будівлі на вул. Шухевича в Коломиї". 5 February 2024.
  2. "Marja Horowitz". @yadvashem.
  3. Борис С. Арсен; Моя гірка правда – Я і Холокост на Прикарпатті - Надвірна: Надвірнянська друкарня, 2004.  — 366 с.
  4. "XLVI sprawozdanie roczne Wydziału Towarzystwa Rygorozantów (Żydowski Dom Akademicki) we Lwowie za rok akademicki 1924/1925". 1925.
  5. "CRISPA". crispa.uw.edu.pl.
  6. ^ "коломийська швейна фабрика". August 23, 2015 – via YouTube.
  7. "Targi Wschodnie 1935 : Lwów, Stanisławów, Tarnopol". 1935.
  8. "Цінна для світу: 9 імен з історії жіночого руху Коломиї, які варто знати кожному". 11 May 2024.
  9. "KehilaLink Kolomyya, Ukraine". kehilalinks.jewishgen.org.
  10. С. Андріїшин. Коломия, 1939-1941 / Коломия: Вік, 2013. — С. 125
  11. "Tygodnik Pokucki Zjednoczenie : R.2, nr 26 (24 czerwca 1928)".
  12. "Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 6, nr 6 (7 lutego 1930)".
  13. "Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 3, nr 38 (23 grudnia 1927)".
  14. "Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 6, nr 9 (28 lutego 1930)".
  15. "Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 4, nr 40 (21 grudnia 1928) + nadz. dod. filmowy".
  16. "Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 8, nr 5 (2 grudnia 1932)".
  17. "Nasz Głos : pismo tygodniowe : R. 3, nr 15 (15 kwietnia 1927)".
  18. "XV zjednoczenie pracowników Organu zjednoczenia pracowników niewidomych".
  19. Wareński, Aleksander Red (10 February 1934). "Gazeta Lwowska. 1934, nr 38 (10 lutego 1934)". Biblioteka Jagiellońska, 501 V czasop.
  20. "Zarządzenie o nadaniu Srebrnego i Brązowego Krzyża Zasługi M.P. 1937 nr 187 poz. 309".
  21. "Extermination of the Jews of Kolomyja and District". www.jewishgen.org.
  22. ^ "Kolmyya, Ukraine (Pages 414-425)". www.jewishgen.org.
  23. "Kolomyya Forever, by Ariah Suchman". kolomyya-forever-en.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
  24. "Швейна машинка "SINGER" і Коломия: що спільного?".
  25. "9 жінок, які вплинули на культурне і політичне життя Коломиї".
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