Jakub Lejkin
Jakub Lejkin was a Polish Jewish lawyer, deputy commander subordinate to the Germans at the Warsaw Ghetto. He was the administrator from May to July 1942. Lejkin played a leading role in the deportation of local Jews to extermination camps. The Germans nicknamed him “little Napoleon” and adored his brutality.
His father was a wealthy tradesman. Lejkin graduated from the Polish military school in Jarocin. Before the war, he worked as a lawyer in Warsaw.
On October 29, 1942, at 18:10, he died as a result of the execution carried out by the Jewish Combat Organization. Lejkin was shot on his way back home, in broad daylight by the Jewish resistance fighter Eliasz Różański on Gęsia Street in Warsaw. His route was tracked down earlier by other resistance soldiers, Emilia Landau and Israel Gutman.
Jakub Lejkin was buried in the Warsaw Jewish cemetery.
