Józef Szeryński, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Józef Szeryński

Jewish Nazi collaborator

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1892

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1943

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Józef Andrzej Szerynski (born Josef Szynkman, 8 November 1893 or 1892 – 24 January 1943) was a police-colonel in interwar Poland, inspector for the Lublin district and later – during the Second World War – a commander of the Jewish Ghetto Police in Warsaw with recommendation from Adam Czerniaków.
Szerynski was arrested by the Gestapo on May 1, 1942 for smuggling furs out of the Warsaw Ghetto for personal gain.
He was released on the condition of leading the deportation action to Treblinka extermination camp in July 1942.
The very next month Jewish underground attempted to assassinate him, unsuccessfully.
He remained at the helm of the Ghetto Police until the end of the Grossaktion Warsaw which claimed the lives of over 254,000 Ghetto inmates, men, women and children.
He committed suicide right after the next wave of deportations in January 1943.