Ignacy Schwarzbart

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Ignacy Izaak Schwarzbart[https://www.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%201616.pdf Schwarzbart, Ignacy Isaac], Yad Vashem (13 November 1888 in Chrzanów – 26 April 1961 in New York City) was a prominent Polish Zionist,Listing of the record groups in the Yad Vashem Archives, record group M2. See [http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/archive/pdf/list_of_record_groups.pdf the site of Yad Vashem] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065139/http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/about/archive/pdf/list_of_record_groups.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}. 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.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), [http://ece.columbia.edu/files/ece/images/bookreview.pdf site of the Columbia University].[https://books.google.com/books?id=w4dsCQAAQBAJ&dq=%22Ignacy+Schwarzbart%22+government+in+exile&pg=PA44 The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945], Cambridge University Press, Joshua D. Zimmerman, page 44

Schwarzbart and Zygielbojm played key roles in highlighting reports of Nazi atrocities against Jews in occupied Poland.{{Cite web|title=Marvin Kalb -- The Journalism of the Holocaust|url=http://www.ushmm.org:80/lectures/kalb.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130126080250/http://www.ushmm.org/lectures/kalb.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-26|date=2013-01-26|access-date=2020-05-19}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://remember.org/secrets|title=Official Secrets: What the Nazis Planned, What the British and Americans Knew|website=The Holocaust History - A People's and Survivor History - Remember.org}}{{page needed|date=January 2022}}