Shmuel Zytomirski ( , ; September 16 , 1900 – 1944 ) was a well-known figure at the Jewish community of Lublin before and during World War II and the father of Henio Zytomirski . He died in The Holocaust at the end of the war , after almost all his family were killed by the Nazis . The letters Zytomirski had sent and received during the war document a lost struggle of a brave man who died shortly before the war ended . The information regarding the short life of his son Henio , who became an icon of the Holocaust in Poland , became known to the public from the father 's letters . The circumstances of Shmuel Zytomirski 's death remain mysterious and are unknown to this day
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Shmuel Zytomirski