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Zygielbojm, Szmul


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Szmul (Shmuel) Zygielbojm (1895-1943), a Jewish member of the Polish government in exile, took his own life in protest against the Allies' abandonment of European Jewry. Zygielbojm, a leader of the Jewish Socialist Bund, was appointed to the Jewish Council (Judenrat) established by the Nazis in late...

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