# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jankiel-wiernik
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:29:24.202Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jankiel-wiernik"
name: "Jankiel Wiernik"
slug: "jankiel-wiernik"
description: "Jankiel Wiernik was a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who was an influential figure in the Treblinka extermination camp resistance. He had been forced to work as a Sonderkommando slave worker there, where an estimated 700,000–900,000 people, mostly Jews, were murdered. After his escape during the uprising of 2 August 1943, Wiernik reached Warsaw and joined the resistance. He also wrote a clandestine account of the camp's operation, A Year in Treblinka, which was copied and translated for printing in London and the US in English and Yiddish."
tagline: "Polish holocaust survivor (1889–1972)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jankiel_Wiernik_Underground.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1889"
deathDate: "1972-12-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.64
  momentum:             1.376146788990826
  historical:           8.987549333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%99%D7%A2%D7%A7%D7%91_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7"
    title: "יעקב ויירניק"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%AF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2"
    title: "Верник, Яков"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jankiel_Wiernik"
    title: "Jankiel Wiernik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6154832"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump