Ignacy Izaak Schwarzbart (13 November 1888 in Chrzanów – 26 April 1961 in New York City) was a prominent Polish Zionist, and one of Jewish representatives on the Polish National Council of the Polish Government-in-Exile during the Second World War, along with Szmul Zygielbojm.
Schwarzbart and Zygielbojm played key roles in highlighting reports of Nazi 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
- Schwarzbart, Ignacy Isaac, Yad Vashem
- Listing of the record groups in the Yad Vashem Archives, record group M2. See the site of Yad Vashem Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
- Marek Jan Chodakiewicz, book review of Dariusz Stola, Nadzieja i Zagłada: Ignacy Schwarzbart – zydowski przedstawiciel w Radzie Narodowej RP (1940-1945) (Warszawa: Oficyna Naukowa, 1995), in Intermarium Archived Issue, Volume 5, No. 3 (2002), site of the Columbia University.
- The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945, Cambridge University Press, Joshua D. Zimmerman, page 44
- "Marvin Kalb -- The Journalism of the Holocaust". 2013-01-26. Archived from the original on 2013-01-26. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
- "Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew". The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivor History - Remember.org.
Books
- Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Nie ostatnie słowo oskarżonego, Warszawa 2003, ISBN 83-88736-32-9
- Dariusz Stola, Nadzieja i Zagłada. Ignacy Schwarzbart - żydowski przedstawiciel w Radzie Narodowej RP (1940-1945), Warszawa 1995
- E. Thomas Wood and Stanisław M. Jankowski: Karski: How One Man Tried to Stop the Holocaust, by (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994; paperback February 1996).
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