Adam Czerniaków was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing a cyanide pill, a day after t
Adam Czerniaków (before 1939)
Tenement house at 20 Chłodna Street in Warsaw, home to Adam Czerników from 13 December 1941 till his death.
Jewish council building at 26/28 Grzybowska Street, Warsaw where Czerniaków committed suicide on 23 July 1942
The Grossaktion Warsaw was the Nazi code name for the deportation and mass murder of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto during the summer of 1942, beginning on 22 July. During the Grossaktion, Jews were terr
Adam Czerniaków
…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. Czerniaków was born on 30 November 1880 in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Congress Poland). He studied engineering in Warsaw and Dresden and taught…
Deportation of ghetto inmates at the Umschlagplatz
The Grossaktion Warschau 1942
Umschlagplatz holding pen for deportations to Treblinka death camp