Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym

Artur-Shmuel Ziegelboym was born in Borowica, Poland. He was involved in the Jewish labor movement at an early age and was a member of the Central Committee of the Bund. After living in Warsaw and Łódź, he escaped to Belgium in 1939 and served on the National Council of the Polish government in exile, speaking out about the fate of Polish Jewry while spending time in France and the United States. In April 1942, Ziegelboym moved to London to serve as the Bund’s representative in the Polish National Council. He committed suicide in 1943, in protest to the indifference of the Allied governments in the face of the Holocaust.