Given name: Jakub Family name: Gamarnikow

A barrister, a friend of Hartglas who announced him as his deputy in the Council of Elders; Gamarnikow did not take part in the political life, but his wife thought that if her husband had an official post, he would be safe from trouble made by Germans; he was arrested as a hostage on 4 November 1939, released on 6 November and arrested again the next day; he had an ulcer disease, in prison conditions the disease became more intense, he died a few days after 20 December 1939.