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‘Perhaps by my death I shall help break down the indifference’
Seventy-five years ago, Polish Jewish socialist Szmul Zygielbojm killed himself in his London flat in an effort to draw leaders' attention to the plight of Poland's Jews. DAVID ROSENBERG tells his story
Szmul Zygielbojm
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“MY COMRADES in the Warsaw Ghetto perished with their weapons in their hands ... It was not my destiny to die as they did, together with them.
“But I belong to them and in their mass graves … perhaps by my death I shall help to break down the indifference of those who have the possibility now, at the last moment, to save those Polish Jews still alive from certain annihilation…
“I wish that the surviving remnants of the several millions of Polish Jews could live to see, with the Polish population, the liberation that it could know in Poland, in a world of freedom and in the justice of socialism.”
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