Emanuel Scherer graduated from the
Jagiellonian University in
Kraków, and became active in the
Bund youth movement there. Later he moved to
Warsaw, where he continued to be an active politician in the Bund party, in 1935 joining its Central Committee. In 1938 he was elected to the
Warsaw City Council. During
World War II Scherer was able to escape to the West, where he took part in the work of the
Polish government in exile. He was a member of the
National Council of Poland and acted as the Bund's representative following
Szmul Zygielbojm's death. ==References==