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.
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30 November 1880 Warsaw, Poland
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23 July 1942 (aged 61) Warsaw Ghetto, Nazi Germany
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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