שמואל מרדכי (ארתור) זיגלבוים
Shmuel Mordechai (Arthur) Zigelboim
(Szmul [Samuel Arthur]
Zygelbojm /Zygielbojm /Zygelbaum))
21 February 1891 - 12 May 1943
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Shmuel (Arthur) Ziegelboim was the "Bund" representative at the Polish National Council in exile, in London. He tried desperately but in vain to awake public opinion against the Nazi atrocities being committed in Eastern Europe.
When the news arrived of the extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto, Zygielbojm committed suicide on 12th May 1943, in protest at the passivity with which the world was permitting the Nazis to destroy the Jews of Europe. Before his death he sent the following letter to the President of Poland.
He wrote: "..I cannot live while the remnants of the Jewish people in Poland, whose representative I am, are being exterminated.'"
The inscription on the Szmul Zygielbojm Memorial in Warsaw , Poland
The Last Letter of Szmul Zygielbojm
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Links to a few of the sites in Arthur's memory :
http://www.mjh163.dircon.co.uk/zyg.htm
http://warsawghetto.epixtech.co.uk/Zygielbm.htm
http://www.davka.org/what/shoa/lasttestamentszmulzygelboj.html
This page was last updated on 20/11/06 By Baruch Krotman