Sultanik was born in
Miechów,
Poland, on April 12, 1917. During the
Second World War he participated in the
underground resistance movement against the
Nazis before being held in the
Płaszów concentration camp in
German-occupied Poland and, later, a camp in
Dresden,
Germany. From there he was forced on a
death march to
Theresienstadt. Following his liberation in 1945, Sultanik served as a representative of
Holocaust survivors in
displaced persons camps at the twenty-second
World Zionist Congress held in
Basel,
Switzerland in 1946. In 1949, he became secretary general of the World Confederation of General Zionists In 1981, while serving as co-chair of the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation’s International Auschwitz-Birkenau Preservation Committee along with
Auschwitz survivor
Ernest Michel, Sultanik organized an assembly of ten thousand Holocaust survivors in
Jerusalem aimed at advancing a project to preserve Auschwitz. He also helped raise $40 million from governments across Europe to preserve the site. Subsequently, Sultanik received a law degree from
La Salle Extension University in
Chicago,
Illinois, and also founded the Confederation House in Jerusalem. He died on October 14, 2014, in New York at age 97. == References ==