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Adam Czerniaków, Polish engineer and politician (born 1880)

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Adam Czerniaków

Polish politician (1880–1942)

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…
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