# Berek

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**Berek** may refer to:

## Places

- [Berek, Croatia](/source/Berek,_Croatia), a municipality
- [Berek (Gradiška)](/source/Berek_(Gradi%C5%A1ka)), village in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

## People

In Polish, Berek is a diminutive of the names [Baruch](/source/Baruch_(given_name)) or [Ber](/source/Ber_(name)), and later a name in its own right.

- Berek Freiberg, better known as [Dov Freiberg](/source/Dov_Freiberg) (1927–2008), Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, writer, and witness at the Eichmann trial and the Demjanjuk case
- [Berek Joselewicz](/source/Berek_Joselewicz) (1764–1809), Polish Jewish colonel of the Polish Army
- [Berek Lajcher](/source/Berek_Lajcher) (1893–1943), Polish Jewish physician and social activist, officer of the Polish Army
- [Jan Berek](/source/Jan_Berek) (1896–1986), Polish army officer
- [Jonathan Berek](/source/Jonathan_Berek), Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University School of Medicine
- [Katalin Berek](/source/Katalin_Berek) (1930–2017), Hungarian actress
- [Michael Berek](/source/Michael_Berek), East German slalom canoeist
- [Peter Berek](/source/Peter_Berek), Professor of English and Shakespearean scholar at Amherst College

## Fictional characters

- Berek Halfhand, from *[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant](/source/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant)* series

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