Joseph Szerynski was a Jewish convert to Catholicism. Before the War, he had been
a high-ranking Polish Police officer. He was named commander of the Jewish Police in the Ghetto. Arrested by the Germans in the spring of 1942 for illegal confiscation of furs, he was released on the eve of the mass deportations and directed the men deporting the Ghetto's inmates. He was wounded by Israël Kanal in the course of an attempted assassination. In January 1943, he committed suicide by swallowing poison.
