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Adam Czerniakow (1880–1942)

Autor de The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom

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Nombre canónico
Czerniakow, Adam
Nombre legal
Czerniakow, Adam
Fecha de nacimiento
1880-11-30
Fecha de fallecimiento
1942-07-23
Lugar de sepultura
Okopowa Street Cemetery, Warsaw, Poland
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Poland
Lugar de nacimiento
Warsaw, Poland
Lugar de fallecimiento
Warsaw, Poland
Causa de fallecimiento
Suicide
Lugares de residencia
Warsaw, Poland
Educación
Warsaw Polytechnic School
Ocupaciones
chemical engineer
vocational school teacher
senator
Head of the Judenrat, Warsaw Ghetto
diarist
Organizaciones
Polish Senate
Judenrat, Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Municipal Council
Engineers Association
Nationalist Minority Block
Biografía breve
Adam Czerniaków was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, Poland (then part of the Russian Empire). He studied chemistry at Warsaw Polytechnic and engineering in Dresden, and taught in the vocational school of the Jewish community in Warsaw. From 1927 to 1934, he served as a member of the Warsaw Municipal Council, and in 1931 was elected to the Polish Senate. Before the outbreak of World War II, he was nominated to membership on the Jewish Community Council as a representative of the Jewish craftsmen. After Nazi Germany invaded his homeland in 1939, Czerniaków was ordered to establish and assume leadership of a Judenrat (Jewish Council), which was held responsible for implementing German orders in the Jewish Ghetto. In July 1942, the Judenrat was ordered to provide lists of all the Jews in the Ghetto and maps of their residences. As the Nazis began rounding up Jews for deportation to extermination or forced labor, Czerniaków managed to obtain exemptions for a handful of people. Despite his pleading, however, he was unable to save the orphanage children. He returned to his office and committed suicide with a cyanide capsule. The diary that he kept from 1939 until the day of his death was preserved by his wife Niunia Czerniakówa and eventually published in 1979.

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The diary of Adam Czerniakow, who was chairman of the Jews in Warsaw, Poland between 1939 and 1942. A fundamentally decent if unextraordinary man, he committed suicide to avoid having to deport the people of the Warsaw Ghetto to their deaths. Czerniakow's diary is quite laconic -- many entries are just a few sentences long -- but provides many details of his efforts on the behalf of the Warsaw Jews.

Obscure references are demystified in the footnotes. There are also some black and white photographs of ghetto scenes, an appendix of ghetto-related documents and letters, and two introductions totaling seventy pages which provide more information on the life and death of Czerniakow and the story of the Warsaw Ghetto.

This is hardly a gripping read, but it is essential if you want to know the story of the Warsaw Jews. Czerniakow worked as best he could from them, but he and they were lost from the start.
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meggyweg | 2 reseñas más. | Mar 26, 2009 |
Extremely abbreviated daily descriptions of Warsaw immediately following the German invasion; followed by the excruciatingly incremental, falsely legal destruction of the Jewish population. Written by the Community leader.
 
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tmph | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 19, 2007 |
 
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Miembros
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