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*Markus Cassirer” was born in “Bujakow”: This was an interesting very little town (in the “Landkreis [[Riebnig|Rybnik]]”) because it is situated halfway between Kattowitz and [[Riebnig|Rybnik]] (all three having been allocated to Poland after 1920). In the citation from the memories of Walter Grünfeld it says that as a boy he and his aunt met in 1920 in Kattowitz a large group of Berliner Cassirers, comming from [[Riebnig|Rybnik]], where they had voted (that means I think: the law then forced people to vote for Germany / for Poland at the place where they / their family originated. Perhaps Bujakow was too small to manage such a vote with people from as far as Berlin). So instead of [[Riebnig|Rybnik]], Bujakow might have been also one of the places in the Kattowitz region where the Cassirers from Russian Poland / Austrian Poland, i.e. Galicia, or Moravia and Hungary, Bessarabia, or whatever, first settled.

*It is not exactly clear yet which of the several places called Bujakow was the one which Markus Cassirer was born in but I have assumed it was the Silesian town now known as Bujaków Mikołów, Mikołów County, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland.  Details of the old Silesian German town names are given at Kartenmeister as [[http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/City.asp?CitNum=74526|Bujakow, Hegerhaus]] (located in 1.9 km from modern "Bujakow"), [[http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/City.asp?CitNum=74525 |Bujakow, Oberförsterei]] (also 1.9 km from modern Bujakow), and [[http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/City.asp?CitNum=47372|Bujakow]] (which is located  2.9 km from Groß Paniow, which is known today as Paniowy). All of these are quite close to the cities of Rynek and Katy.

*Click here for %newwin%[[https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Bujak%C3%B3w+Miko%C5%82%C3%B3w,+Miko%C5%82%C3%B3w+County,+Silesian+Voivodeship,+Poland&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=50.178877,18.789368&spn=0.175229,0.283585&sll=50.492682,18.021183&sspn=0.077209,0.17458&oq=bujak&hnear=Bujak%C3%B3w+Miko%C5%82%C3%B3w,+Miko%C5%82%C3%B3w+County,+Silesian+Voivodeship,+Poland&t=m&geocode=FcPB_QIdDeIeAQ&z=12|map of Bujakow]]

*[[http://www.geckogo.com/Guide/Poland/Silesia-Region/Bujakow-1/|Things to know about Bujakow]] tells us that "Bujakow is located in Poland's Silesia region. It receives very few travelers, and it's among Poland's least visited destinations."

*[[http://www.woophy.com/photo/750425|Bujakow, Poland with photograph]]

*[[http://www.kartenmeister.com/preview/City.asp?CitNum=47372|Kartenmeister reference]]

*Bujakow is about 19 km by road from Swientochlowitz where Markus Cassirer lived for much of his adult life and where he owned his hotel.


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