Given name: Unknown Family name: Leist (5)

  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) YES
  • (2, 3, 4, 5) Male
  • (3) Ludwig , (5) Ludwig
  • (1) Leist , (2) Leist , (3) Leist , (4) Leist , (5) Leist
    • (3) Yes
  • (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) No information
    • (3) German
  • (1)

    ghetto commissar

    (2)

    Major, German administrator of the Jewish district in Warsaw.

    (3)

    from October 1939 to March 1940 - head of the department of German administration in Warsaw; from March 1940 to 31 July 1944 - town district starosta (government) of Warsaw

    (4)

    German mayor of Warsaw

    (5)

    SA-Oberfuehrer, plenipotentiary of the chief of the district for Warsaw city, since September 1941 the head (Stadthauptmann) of Warsaw.

    • (1, 2, 3, 4) Germans
    • (5) Germans, civil servants
  • (2)

    According to Kaplan, he was neither cruel nor despotic by nature

  • (1)

    Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum; Emanuel Ringelblum’s work was edited and translated into English by Jacob Sloan, and published in New York by McGraw-Hill Book Company, cop. 1958 under the title Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: the 'Journal' of Emanuel Ringelblum

    (2)

    Kaplan, Chaim Aron Scroll of Agony. The Warsaw Diary, transl. from Hebrew and ed. by A. I. Katsh

    (3)

    Landau, Ludwik; Kronika lat wojny i okupacji, t. 1-3 (Chronicle of the War and Occupation Years, vol. 1-3)

    (4)

    Makower, Henryk; Pamietnik z getta warszawskiego. Pazdziernik 1940 - styczen 1943 (Warsaw Ghetto Memoir. October 1940 – January 1943), ed. N. Makowerowa

    (5)

    Czerniakow, Adam; Adama Czerniakowa dziennik getta warszawskiego. 6 IX 1939 - 23 VII 1942, (The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow)

  • (1) [110], (2) 154, (3) I, 629,746, (5) 97