Acting
Szmul Zygielbojm
Born — Died
1895-02-21 — 1943-05-12
Place of birth
Borowica, Poland
Known for
Acting
Credits
2 titles
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.
Known for
A haunting documentary on one man's desperate stand against the Holocaust's silence, "Zygielbojm" is the tragic tale of Polish Jew Szmuel Zygielbojm, Bund leader and member of the Polish National Council in exile. A champion of Western intervention against the Nazi Holocaust, he witnessed mass deportations and the Warsaw Ghetto liquidation before taking his own life on 12 May 1943 in protest against the world's indifference and inaction.
Zygielbojm
1998
NROn 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.
Śmierć Zygielbojma
2000