title: Berek
text: # Berek
  
  Berek may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Berek, Croatia, a municipality
  * Berek (Gradiška), village in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
  ## People
  
  In Polish, Berek is a diminutive of the names Baruch or Ber, and later a name in its own right.
  
  * Berek Freiberg, better known as Dov Freiberg (1927–2008), Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and witness at the Eichmann trial and the Demjanjuk case
  * Berek Joselewicz (1764–1809), Polish Jewish colonel of the Polish Army
  * Berek Lajcher (1893–1943), Polish Jewish physician and social activist, officer of the Polish Army
  * Jan Berek (1896–1986), Polish army officer
  * Jonathan Berek, Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine
  * Katalin Berek (1930–2017), Hungarian actress
  * Michael Berek, East German slalom canoeist
  * Peter Berek, Professor of English and Shakespearean scholar at Amherst College
  
  ## Fictional characters
  
  * Berek Halfhand, from The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series
  