Various Ostrowiec Personalities who lived prior to the Holocaust:
Special thanks to Wojtek Mazan and his blog: http://zydowskiostrowiec.blogspot.com
Baron Antoni Edward Fraenkel
A banker, industrialist of Jewish origin, Baron Antoni Edward Fraenkel, becomes the owner of the Ostrowiec estate and creates a modern metallurgical plant from the steelworks
Abraham Simon Cohen
A Warsaw merchant, in agreement with count. Henryk Łubieński, acquires the property of Ostrowiec (the beginning of the development of the Ostrowiec smelting industry, the so-called Klimkiewiczów smelter)
Władysław Laski
Through the initiative of Władysław Laski, a banker and industrialist of Jewish origin, the owner of the Ostrowiec smelter, Ostrowieckie plant becomes a joint-stock company, and an iron railway is brought to the city
Szymon Fiszman
President of the Bund in Ostrowiec
Dr. Abram Malinger
A dentist at the Sickness Fund, municipal councilor from 1918
Dr Abram Jelen
A dermatologist and pediatrician, in 1926 on the board of the Ostrowiec Kasa sufferers, in 1933 the head of the Internal Department of the Hospital in Ostrowiec
Abraham Mordechai Szymonowicz
Founder and president of the Association of Support and Propagation of Religious-Talmudic Knowledge "Beit Josef" (House of Józef), whose activity in Ostrowiec falls in the 1930s
Dr. Jakub Holler
Latin and German teacher at the Gymnasium Chreptowicz
Josek Pfeffer
Banker, owner of a representative banking house at Aleja 3 Maja
Kiwa Rosset
The owner of a magnificent apartment building at Aleja 3 May 3
Chaskiel Krongold
Industrialist, owner of the SMOLOPAP factory on Żabia Street and Modernist villa on Skladowej Street
Szmul Heine
Industrialist, owner of a sawmill at Kuźnia and a mansion on Iłżecka Street
L. Rotsztajn
Editor of "Ostrowcer Cajtung"-a Jewish-Polish newspaper published in 1938-39 in Ostrowiec