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‘Only one man could have told them
the truth [about the liquidation of
the ghetto]: Czerniaków. They would

have believed him. But he committed
suicide. That wasn’t fair: he should

have died with fireworks. Fireworks
were very necessary at that time – he
should have died having previously

summoned the people to fight. Actually,
it’s the only thing we blame him for. [...]

Me and my friends. Those dead ones.
[We blame him] For making his death
his own, private matter. We knew that

one had to die in public, for the world
to see’.

Marek
Edelman

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Engineer Adam Czerniaków, Chairman of the Jewish Council in the Warsaw
ghetto, 1942. Stadtarchive Munchen