Salomon Charmatz, also called Max, was born on 20 December 1894 in Brzeżany, Galicia - at the time belonging to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, after 1919 to Poland and after 1945 attached to the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine. He was a son of Isak Charmatz and Marjem Reisie Karpin, born out of wedlock, but legitimized on 28 March 1899. He was the fourth in a family of five children, which left Brzezany …