Ignacy Izaak Schwarzbart (13 November 1888 in

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– 26 April 1961 in

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) was a prominent Polish

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, and one of Jewish representatives on the Polish National Council of the

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during the

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, along with

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. Schwarzbart and Zygielbojm played key roles in highlighting reports of

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atrocities against Jews in occupied Poland. In 1942 Schwarzbart held a press conference in London alleging that 1 million Jewish people had already been killed. The figures were reported in the media but were treated sceptically by both the British and by some other Polish politicians.

References

Books

* Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, ''Nie ostatnie słowo oskarżonego'', Warszawa 2003, *

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and Stanisław M. Jankowski: '' Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust'', by (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994; paperback February 1996). 1888 births 1961 deaths People from Chrzanów People from the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Austro-Hungarian Jews Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Polish Zionists Members of the Sejm of the Second Polish Republic (1938–1939) 20th-century Polish lawyers Jagiellonian University alumni Polish emigrants to the United States Polish exiles {{Poland-politician-stub