Aron
Mordke
(Aaron)
"Jack The Ripper"
Kosminski
aka Kozmiński
Born in Kłodawa, Chojnice, Kashubia, Poland
Ancestors 
[sibling(s) unknown]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 53
in Leavesden Asylum, London, England, United Kingdom
Profile last modified
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Biography
Aaron Kosminski is Notable.
Aaron was born in 1865. He passed away in 1919.
Aaron was a Polish Jewish immigrant who emigrated to Whitechapel, England in 1881 with his family. He worked as a hairdresser in Whitechapel. Sometime during 1888, murders began which were attributed to Jack the Ripper. Eleven deaths are attributed to him. Until recently, his identity was only guessed at, but through DNA examination, it is believed by many his true identity has been confirmed. A DNA match with a great niece of Aaron's (a descendant of his sister) using a shawl supposedly found at one of the crime scenes confirmed that Aaron was indeed Jack the Ripper. The shawl also contained DNA from the victim, Catherine Eddowes, and was matched to one of her descendants. The DNA testing has not been through peer reviews, yet, though, so some still doubt the authenticity. Circumstantial evidence also indicates that Aaron fits the profile, as the murders stopped the same time Aaron was admitted to a mental facility, Colney Hatch Mental Asylum, in 1891. He remained there until his death in 1919.
Aaron Kosminski is buried in the East Ham Jewish Cemetery, East Ham, London Borough of Newham, Greater London, England.[1]
Sources
- https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GCY1-BTHup
- "DNA tests ‘prove’ that Jack the Ripper was a Polish immigrant named Aaron Kosminski" by Network Writers, on Newscorp Australia, in The Advertiser online, September 7, 2014.
- Wikipedia:Aaron_Kosminski
- 1901 England Census on Ancestry. Class: RG13; Piece: 1322; Folio: 154; Page: 31.
- England and Wales Death Index on Ancestry. Registration district: Watford; Inferred County: Hertfordshire; Volume: 3a; Page: 1273
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Paraphrased from a source critiquing the presentation of Ripperology, the accuracy of historical research by that community and media presentations of anything Ripper-related... the critique also included comments, first hand, by a forensic geneticist on the shawl and the supposed findings presented. The source of the critique was made by an actual academic historian with extensive knowledge of the era in question.