Helena Rubinstein - her Polish past

[Jaga]

She was born as the oldest of eight children, all girls. In a small apartment in Krakow's Jewish district Kazimierz. Her mother was giving the girls a cream to keep a good skin. Her father wanted her to get married witha widower when she was 18, she refused and left to the uncle to Australia. Here she started selling her cream and she opened the first beauty saloon.

See her bio in WIkipedia. It has the photo of the house in Kazimierz she lived:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Rubinstein

also interesting article in Polish:
www.gazetawyborcza.pl/1,81388,4343900.html?as=1&ias=4&startsz=x