Wolf Percik family photograph

The photograph depicts the family of Wolf Percik. People in photograph (from viewer's left to right): (Standing) Rosalie Percik Lubawski, Zygmunt Percik, Dora Percik, Ludwik Lew Percik, Maximilian Percik, Henry Percik; (Seated) Stanislaw Lubawski, Irena Percik Rosenkrantz, Wolf Percik, Felicia Percik (donor's mother). Of the people pictured, only Irena Percik Rosenkrantz and Stanislaw Lubawski survived the Holocaust. Wolf Percik, was a well established businessman in Sosnowiec, Poland and an owner of an office supplies and toy shop. He was also a member of the town's council and local business association. Wolf was a personal friend of author Shalom Aleichem, and one of the heroes of his story "The Fiddler on the Roof." Wolf was also painted by Polish painter and writer St.Wyspianski in a "Portrait in Blue." He died of natural causes during the first years of WWII.