Given name: Apolinary Family name: Hartglas

'A prominent Jewish politician of the pre-war Poland, publicist, MP, co-creator of the National Minorities Bloc; from 1925 to 1927 president of the Jewish parliamentary group, president of the Zionist Organisation in Poland. Also known as a barrister, member of the Warsaw Bar Council. In the independent Israel, a high-ranking official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He left Poland on 20 December 1939 with a group of several Zionist activists; at the beginning of 1940, he got to Jerusalem via Trieste.'