Polish Jewish politician, trade unionist, and Bundist
Szmul Zygielbojm
שמואל זיגלבוים
National Councillor
In office March 1942 – (1943-05-12)12 May 1943
President
Władysław Raczkiewicz
Prime Minister
Władysław Sikorski
Central Committee of the Bund
In office 1924 – (1943-05-12)12 May 1943
Judenrat of the Warsaw Ghetto
In office September – November 1939
President
Adam Czerniaków
Łódź city council
In office 1938 – September 1939
Personal details
Born
(1895-02-21)21 February 1895 Borowica, Russian Empire
Died
12 May 1943(1943-05-12) (aged 48) St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, England[1]
Cause of death
Suicide
Resting place
New Mt. Carmel Cemetery, Ridgewood, New York
Nationality
Polish
Political party
General Jewish Bund
Occupation
Trade union activist, politician, journalist
Known for
Publicizing the Holocaust in Poland
Szmul Mordko Zygielbojm[2] (Polish:[ˈʂmulzɨˈɡʲɛlbɔjm]; Yiddish: שמואל זיגלבוים; (1895-02-21)21 February 1895 – (1943-05-12)12 May 1943) was a Polish socialist politician, Bund trade-union activist, and member of the National Council of the Polish government-in-exile.
Zygielbojm was born in 1895 into a working-class family and had to leave school at age ten. In his early twenties he became involved in Bund trade-union activism, and in 1924 was elected to the Bund Central Committee. He edited a Bund newspaper and in 1938 was elected to the Łódź city council. Upon Germany's invasion of Poland, he fled to Warsaw and was briefly a member of the Judenrat.
He fled to the Netherlands, then to England, where he was appointed to the National Council of the Polish government-in-exile. He interviewed Jan Karski and tried to publicize the mass murder of Jews in German-occupied Poland. After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was brutally crushed, and Warsaw's remaining Jews murdered by units under SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, Zygielbojm committed suicide to protest the inaction of the western Allies.
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Szmul Mordko Zygielbojm (Polish: [ˈʂmul zɨˈɡʲɛlbɔjm]; Yiddish: שמואל זיגלבוים; (1895-02-21)21 February 1895 – (1943-05-12)12 May 1943) was a Polish socialist...
January 1918) Aleksandr Zolotarev (1879–1938), successor of Moisei Rafes SzmulZygielbojm (1895–1943), member of the National Council of the Polish government-in-exile...
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through the sewers with a handful of comrades two days later. On 10 May, SzmulZygielbojm, a Bundist member of the Polish government in exile, committed suicide...
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some Jews served in leadership positions (e.g. Ignacy Schwarzbart and SzmulZygielbojm), though there were no Jewish representatives in the Government Delegation...
Karski also took Feiner's report to the Polish-Jewish political leaders SzmulZygielbojm and Ignacy Schwarzbart, who were serving on the Polish National Council...
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– Czartoryski's diplomat in London and general in the Crimean War SzmulZygielbojm – Jewish-Polish socialist politician, Bund leader, and member of the...
members of the National Council of the Polish government in exile, SzmulZygielbojm, committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments...
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