Szmul Zygielbojm
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Szmul Zygielbojm (Zygelbojm) (1895 – May 12, 1943) was a Jewish-Polish socialist politician, leader of Bund and a member of the Warsaw and Łódź city councils in interwar Poland.
In December of 1939 he fled from the General Government through Belgium and France to London and New York. In addition to Zionist Ignacy Schwarzbart, he was one of two Jewish members of the National Council of the Polish government in exile. After he received word of the final liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto and the deportation of his wife and son, Zygielbojm committed suicide to protest the indifference of the Allied governments of the United Kingdom and the United States in the face of the Holocaust. There are two monuments erected to commemorate Zygielbojm: one in London [1] and the other in Warsaw [2].
