Adam Czerniakow, (Adam Czerniaków) (1880 – July 23, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish engineer and senator, born in Warsaw, Poland. He committed suicide in the Warsaw Ghetto on July 23, 1942. 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... List of Polish Jews: From the Middle Ages until the Holocaust, Jews were a significant part of the Polish population. ... For other uses, see Warsaw (disambiguation) and Warszawa (disambiguation). ... The Ghetto Heroes Memorial The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the... July 23 is the 204th day (205th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 161 days remaining. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

He studied engineering and taught in the Jewish community's vocational school in Warsaw. From 1927 to 1934 he served as a member of the Warsaw Municipal Council, and in 1931 he was elected to the Polish Senate. On October 4, 1939, a few days after the city's surrender to the Nazis, Czerniakow was made head of the 24 member Judenrat, (Jewish Council) responsible for implementing German orders in the Jewish community. 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... October 4 is the 277th day of the year (278th in Leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ... Judenrats, German for Jewish council, were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government (the Nazi-occupied teritory of Poland) and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. ...

German forces began preparing for mass deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp in July 1942 and the Jewish Council was ordered to provide lists of Jews and maps of residences. On July 22, 1942, the Judenrat received instructions that all Warsaw Jews were to be deported to the East. Exceptions were made for Jews working in German factories, Jewish hospital staff, members of the Judenrat with their families, members of the Jewish Ghetto Police with their families. Over the course of the day, Czerniakow was able to obtain exemptions for a handful of individuals, including sanitation workers, husbands of women working factories, and some vocational students. He was not, however, despite all his pleading, able to obtain an exemption for orphans from the Janusz Korczak's orphanage. The orders further stated that the deportations would begin immediately at the rate of 6,000 people per day, to be supplied by the Judenrat and rounded up by the Jewish Ghetto Police. Failure to comply would result in immediate execution of some one hundred hostages, including employees of the Judenrat and Czerniakow's own wife. The Ghetto Heroes Memorial The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. In the three years of its existence, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the... Treblinka was an extermination camp operated by the Nazis as part of the Holocaust, the systematic murder of Jews and others. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 22 July is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... Judenrats, German for Jewish council, were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government (the Nazi-occupied teritory of Poland) and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. ... Janusz Korczak Janusz Korczak, real name Henryk Goldszmit (July 22, 1878 or 1879 – August, 1942) was a Polish-Jewish pediatrician, childrens author and child pedagogist, known as Old Doctor (Stary Doktor). ... Judenrats, German for Jewish council, were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government (the Nazi-occupied teritory of Poland) and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. ... Judenrats, German for Jewish council, were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government (the Nazi-occupied teritory of Poland) and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. ...

Realizing that deportation meant death, Czerniakow went to plead for the orphans. When he failed, he returned to his office and took one of the cyanide capsules he had been keeping for just such an occasion. He left a suicide note to his wife and one to his fellow members of the Judenrat, explaining: "I can no longer bear all this. My act will prove to everyone what is the right thing to do." Judenrats, German for Jewish council, were administrative bodies that the Germans required Jews to form in each ghetto in General Government (the Nazi-occupied teritory of Poland) and later in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. ...

Czerniakow kept a diary from September 6, 1939, until the day of his death. It has been published in 1979 and translated into English. Adam Czerniakow is interred in the Okopowa street cemetery in Warsaw. September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Powazki Cemetery Powązki Cemetery (Polish Cmentarz powązkowski) is the oldest and most famous cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, which is situated in the western part of the city. ... For other uses, see Warsaw (disambiguation) and Warszawa (disambiguation). ...

In the 2001 Warner Bros. motion picture, Uprising, actor Donald Sutherland portrayed Adam Czerniakow. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The WB Shield used from 2003 to present day Warner Bros. ... Uprising is a 2001 war/drama television movie about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ... Donald Sutherland Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC (born July 17, 1935) is a Canadian film actor perhaps best known for his role in military and horror films in the 1960s and 1970s. ...

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Reference

• Raul Hilberg, The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1999, ISBN 1566632307.

External link

• Czerniakow's Biography