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|title=Aaron Kosminski - Suspect - Jack The Ripper
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|description=aron Kosminski was born as Aron Mordke Kozminski in Klodawa, Poland, on 11th September 1865. Kosminski is one of the few serious suspects for Jack The Ripper.
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22nd August 2018. This page is a work in progress. Come back often as it is being updated daily!
== Early Life ==
Aaron Kosminski was born as Aron Mordke Kozminski in Klodawa, Poland, on 11th September 1865.
Aron’s father, Abram Josef Kozminski, was a tailor from the village of Grzegorzew. Abram married Golda Lubnowski, a twenty-three-year-old woman from Klodawa, who was the daughter of a butcher named Wolek and his wife, Ruchel.
During the next twenty years, Abram and Golda had a total of seven children:
* Pessa (F) was born in December 1845, but died before reaching three years of age.
* Hinde (F) was born in November 1848
* Iciek (M) (later called Isaac) was born in 1851
* Malke (F) (later called Matilda) was born in 1854
* Blimbe (F) was born in 1857
* Wolek (M) (later called Woolf) was born in 1860
* Aron (M) was the youngest child was born in 1865
Aaron’s oldest brother, Iciek, was believed to be the first Kozminski to arrive in England.
By December 1885, all four Kozminski siblings were living on Greenfield Street, just south of Whitechapel Road.
Both of Aaron’s brothers, Woolf and Isaac, were ladies’ tailors in the business of making jackets and outer garments called mantles. Woolf lived at 4 different addresses on Greenfield Street from 1881 until 1887.
== Post Whitechapel Murders ==
A fair deal is known about Aaron Kosminski in the period following the Whitechapel murders - with a great deal of thanks required for '''Paul Begg''' and '''Martin Fido''' for their relentless research.
{| class="wikitable"
| 12th July 1890
| Kosminski was admitted to the Mile End Workhouse from his brother Wolf’s house at 3, Sion Square.
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|15th July 1890
| Kosminski was released back into his brother's care
|-
|4th February 1891
|Kosminski was readmitted into the Mile End Workhouse - this time from 16, Greenfield Street.
|-
|7th February 1891
|After being examined by Dr Edmund King, Kosminski was committed to the Colney Hatch Asylum
|-
|April 1894
|Kosminski was transferred to the Leavesden Asylum near Watford. He remained there until his death in 1919.
The reasons for his admittance were well documented:
* Kosminski heard voices
* He did no work
* He refused to take food from people
* He never washed
* He ate bread from the gutters
* He drank water from taps
|-
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