Jakub Lejkin (1906 – 29 October 1942) was a Polish lawyer, deputy commander subordinate to the

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at the

Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto (, officially , ; ) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the Nazi Germany, German authorities within the new General Government territory of Occupat ...

. He was the administrator from May to July 1942 (after the temporary arrest by the

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of Józef Szeryński). Lejkin played a leading role in the deportation of local Jews to

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. The Germans nicknamed him “little Napoleon” and adored his brutality. His father was a wealthy tradesman. Lejkin graduated from the Polish military school in

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. Before the

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, he worked as a lawyer in Warsaw. Grob Jakuba Lejkina-Grave of Jakub Lejkin

On 29 October 1942, at 18:10, he died as a result of the execution carried out by the

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. Lejkin was shot in broad daylight on Gęsia Street in Warsaw by the Jewish resistance fighter Eliasz Różański. His route was tracked down earlier by other resistance soldiers, Emilia Landau and

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. Lejkin was buried in the Warsaw Jewish cemetery.

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