Szymon Szurmiej was born in 1923 in Luck in Volyn province in current Ukraine. He is an actor and director and long-term head of the Jewish Theatre in Warsaw. He is also well known for undertaking various activities for Jewish community not only in Warsaw.
He settled in Warsaw in 1969. He was conferred Honorary Citizenship of the City of Warsaw in 2004.http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szymon_Szurmiej