It is dedicated to Szmul Zygielbojm, a 20th-century politician and activist of the General Jewish Labour Bund, whom, while a member of the National Council of Poland in London, has committed a suicide in 1943, as a protest against Allied innaction towards the Holocaust.

It consists of two sculptures, a short block of a lightgray granite broken into several cracked pieces on the pavement, and a syenite wall featuring human silhouettes and flames.

It was dedicated to Szmul Zygielbojm, a 20th-century politician and activist of the General Jewish Labour Bund, whom, while a member of the National Council of Poland in London, has committed a suicide in 1943, as a protest against Allied innaction towards the Holocaust.

w Londynie; na znak protestu wobec bierności rządów państw sprzymierzonych w obliczu zagłady Żydów w getcie warszawskim 12 maja 1943 odebrał sobie życie.Hebrew inscription:1895 – 1943, נציג הבונד במועצה הלאומי[ת] של ממשלת פולין הגולה בלונדון.

ב-12 במאי 1943 איבד עצמו לדעת במחאה על אדישותו של ממשלות בעלות הברית להשמדת היהודים English translation:Szmul Zygielbojm 1895–1943, representative of the Bund in the National Council of Poland in London; he took his life on 12 May 1943, as the prosted against the innaction of the goverments of the Allied countries towards the Holocaust in the Warsaw Ghetto