Given name: Melech Family name: Czerniakower

  • YES
  • Male
  • Melech
  • Czerniakower
  • 1942-05-19
  • 1904

  • A young man, hassid, ritual butcher. He secretly did his job in the ghetto. Arrested because of a spot of blood on his Chasid clothes, he was taken to prison at Gesia Street. There during the search a ritual knife was found on him. Charged with sabotage, he was shot on the spot.

  • craftsmen

  • a butcher, he left his wife and three children. People in the ghetto gossiped that Germans killed him with his own knife.

  • Kaplan, Chaim Aron; Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary, transl. from Hebrew and ed. by A. I. Katsh

  • 255-256