Given name: Jankiel Family name: Celemeński

  • YES
  • Male
  • Jankiel
  • Celemeński
  • ps. "Celek", "Czesław"
  • From Warsaw
  • Jewish

  • Jew, an activist on the 'Aryan side' in Cracow. At the beginning of December 1942 he rescued Hanka Aleksandrowicz's 13-year-old daughter. In December 1942 he lived in a rented room in a boarding house in Wspolna Street in Warsaw. He spent nights at the Machajs' house at Gormoslaska Street No. 3. He transported illegal materials to the ghetto as a courier. He was in touch with leaders of the Polish underground. When he realised that Machaj was an informer he tried to kill him. Arrested by the Gestapo with Zoska Kersz - at a Polish smuggler's who took Zoska's brother out of a labour camp, he managed to get out thanks to his calmness and good papers.

  • activists

  • Persecuted by blackmailers (szmalcownicy) - one of them ripped a coat off him

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