Szymon Szurmiej is a Polish-Jewish actor, director and general manager of the Ester Rachel Kamińska and Ida Kamińska State Jewish Theater in Warsaw. From 1985 to 1989 member of the Polish Sejm

Sejm

The Sejm is the lower house of the Polish parliament. The Sejm is made up of 460 deputies, or Poseł in Polish . It is elected by universal ballot and is presided over by a speaker called the Marshal of the Sejm ....

 (he was a member of the communist Polish United Workers' Party). Since July 2004 honorary citizen of Warsaw. Member of the World Jewish Congress

World Jewish Congress

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Biography

Szymon Szurmiej was born on 18 June 1923 in Lutsk, Volhynian Voivodeship

Volhynian Voivodeship

Volhynian Voivodeship or Wołyń Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1566 till 1569 and in the Kingdom of Poland since 1569 till the partitions of Poland in 1795...

 as a son of Polish father Jan Szurmiej and Jewish mother, Rebeka (Ryfka) née' Biterman. Szurmiej debuted as an actor in 1951 at the Polish Theater in Wrocław. In 1969 he moved to Warsaw, where he has become a general menager of the Jewish Theater.
Szymon Szurmiej is a member and activist of different Jewish organisations in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 and world.

In 2007 Polish writer Krystyna Gucewicz-Przybora wrote a Szurmiej's biography.

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