Samuel Zygelbojm was one of the Bund's leaders in Warsaw. Named to the first Judenrat by Adam Czerniakow , he succeeded in leaving Poland shortly afterwards and got to London where he represented the Bund with the Polish governement-in-exile. He tried to lift the veil of silence and break the passivity of Polish Government in exile and of the Great Powers in the face of Nazi crimes, but his efforts were vain. The world would not listen to the desperate plea of the Jewish Resistance, transmitted by Karski. Samuel Zygelbojm took his own life on 12 May 1943. Shortly before his suicide, he had met an agent from the American Secret Service who told him that the Warsaw Jews would not receive any help from the Allies. He left a letter in which he wrote:
“I cannot keep silent any longer, I cannot anymore, while the last survivors of the Polish Jews, whom I represent, are being exterminated”.
