Jerzy Gelbard
Polish, 1894-1944
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Jerzy Gelbard was a Polish architect.
Participant of the Polish-Bolshevik war, volunteer in the First Heavy Artillery Regiment of the Polish Legions. In 1922 he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology. In the interwar period, he ran an architectural office with Roman Sigalin in Warsaw . Both architects jointly designed, among others a series of luxurious tenement houses with characteristic bay facades.
From 1940 he was in the Warsaw ghetto. Later he was hiding on the "Aryan side" . Arrested by the Germans, he ended up in Pawiak, and later in the concentration camp at Majdanek. He died in 1944, probably after leaving the liberated camp.