Given name: Józef Family name: Jaszuński

a Judenrat member, the head of the ORT (Society for the Propagation of Labor among Jews), before closing the ghetto he writes a memorial invalidating from economic point of view the German thesis that Jews are breeding ground for typhus and have to be closed in the ghetto; deputy chairman of the ZSS (Jewish Social Self-Help), arrested and detained at Pawiak as a hostage on the first day of the summer action 1942; he lives with family in Zelazna Street together with Makower and his mother; 6 September 1942 he head the committee allotting life numbers. 18 January 1943 he got to the Umschlagplatz with his family, deported

H.Makower's friend, they shared a love for books; calm, a bit childish joke contrasted with the seriousness of this 60-year-old scholar. He was not considered a good man, perhaps he was cold and egoistic, indeed. But he was one of the few coucillors who had a reputation of being 100% honest. He was a perfect organiser; wide horizons, encyclopedic knowledge.