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Szmul Zygielbojm

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Szmul Zygielbojm

Born February 21, 1895 · Borowica, Poland

Died May 12, 1943 · aged 48

Szmul Zygielbojm was a Polish Jewish socialist politician and member of the Polish Government-in-Exile who committed suicide in May 1943 in London, in protest at the inaction of the Allies in the face of the German annihilation of European Jewry and in particular the defeat of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Śmierć ZygielbojmaŚmierć Zygielbojma · 2000
Śmierć Zygielbojma
2000
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On May 12, 1943, Arthur Shmuel Zygielbojm committed suicide in London, in protest of the world's inaction in the face of the Holocaust. Now his brother is meeting with those who witnessed the hopeless struggle to stir the consciences of the great of this world.

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