Adam Czerniaków
1880
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1942
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Poland
languages spoken, written or signed: Polish
educated at: Warsaw University of Technology
occupation: engineer, politician, poet
position held: Member of the Senate of the Republic of Poland
Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 – 23 July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing a cyanide pill, a day after the commencement of mass extermination of Jews known as the Grossaktion Warsaw. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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