Given name: Szmul Family name: Zygielbojm

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  • Male
  • Szmul
  • Zygielbojm
  • 'An activist of the Bund; one of the Warsaw hostages during the capitulation of the besieged capital city in September 1939; at the end of 1939 he managed to escape from occupied Poland to the West, the member of the Polish National Council in London, in the night 11/12 May 1943 he committed suicide as a protest against the indifference of the World in the face of Extermination.'

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