Adam Czerniaków (1880-1942)
Engineer, economic, educational, and social activist, publicist, Warsaw councilor (1927–1934), long-time councilor and commissioned president of the Jewish Religious Community of Warsaw, and president of the Warsaw Judenrat from 1939 to 1942. At 20 Chłodna Street stands an impressive tenement house, the only one on this section of the street to have survived the prewar development. Built in 1912–1913 as a joint project of renowned Warsaw architects Józef Napoleon Czerwiński and Wacław Heppen, its owner was Zygmunt […]