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Adam Czerniaków

1880 - 1942

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Adam Czerniaków (30 November 1880 – 23 July 1942) was a Polish engineer and senator who was head of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Council (Judenrat) during World War II. He committed suicide on 23 July 1942 by swallowing a cyanide pill, a day after the commencement of mass extermination of Jews known as the Grossaktion Warsaw. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adam Czerniaków is the 65th most popular engineer (up from 73rd in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Poland (up from 289th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Adam Czerniaków ranks 65 out of 389. Before him are Su Song, Masaru Ibuka, Colin Chapman, Henry Gantt, Hans Kammler, and Mikhail Gurevich. After him are Yuri Kondratyuk, Charles George Gordon, Edward A. Murphy Jr., Hidesaburō Ueno, Jack Parsons, and Arthur Scherbius.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Adam Czerniaków ranks 46. Before him are Giuseppe Moscati, Andrei Bely, Akiba Rubinstein, Lionel Logue, Otto Meissner, and Archie Hahn. After him are Mack Sennett, María de las Mercedes, Princess of Asturias, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Martiros Saryan, Ugo Cavallero, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko. Among people deceased in 1942, Adam Czerniaków ranks 49. Before him are Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Leopold Mandić, Lauri Kristian Relander, Daniil Kharms, Séraphine Louis, and Grant Wood. After him are Yuri Kondratyuk, Herschel Grynszpan, Ivan Bilibin, Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal, and Henri de Baillet-Latour.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Adam Czerniaków ranks 285 out of 1,694. Before him are Miguel Najdorf (1910), Hans Kammler (1901), Kurt Masur (1927), Adam Stefan Sapieha (1867), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), and Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911). After him are David Seymour (1911), Mieczysław Weinberg (1919), Victor Klemperer (1881), Leopold Infeld (1898), Robert Wiene (1873), and Edward Gierek (1913).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Adam Czerniaków ranks 3. Before him are Wernher von Braun (1912), and Hans Kammler (1901). After him are Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Johannes Winkler (1897), Walter Thiel (1910), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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