Given name: Adam Family name: Czerniakow

An engineer, the chairman of the Judenrat. He was in prison at Pawiak for 3 days. He got severely beaten by the Germans. He committed suicide by swallowing poison.

'He was neither particularly popular nor did he distinguish himself with any special virtues. He was an average, intelligent man, who used his brain to do as little as possible, considering it to be the best tactic.'