Michal Shuldenfrei
Deceased Person
1887 – 1965
Who was Michal Shuldenfrei?
Michal Shuldenfrei was a Polish Jewish politician, lawyer, a delegate to the first Sejm of post World War II Poland.
He was elected as the only member of the Jewish Bund to the 1947 Polish parliament.
In the interwar period in Poland he served as a defense lawyer in several politically charged trials. He was also very active in the Bund. During the last stages of German occupation of Poland he joined the Soviet sponsored State National Council. In 1944, after the entry of the Soviet Army into Poland, and the establishment of the Lublin Committee he tried to reorganize the Bund, despite the fact that its pre war leaders, like Victor Alter and Henryk Ehrlich had been executed on Stalin's orders. He was one of the signatories of PKWN's July Manifesto.
After the war he was known for his dedication to the pursuit of German Nazi war criminals responsible for the Holocaust. He was also very active in trying to bring the perpetrators of the Kraków pogrom to justice.
He is buried at the Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.
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