Czerniaków studied engineering in Warsaw and Dresden and taught in the Jewish community's vocational school in Warsaw.
On 15 September 1944, units of the LWP made their first attempt to cross the river and link up with the insurgents in Czerniaków, in spite of Joseph Stalin's ban.
Excerpts of the poem were used by a Polish rock band Lao Che in its Warsaw Uprising album (in the song Czerniakow).