Adam Czerniaków
✶November 30, 1880
†July 23, 1942
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✶November 30, 1880
†July 23, 1942
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Adam Czerniaków 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.
Polish politician (1880–1942)
Biography from the article Adam Czerniaków on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.