Motl Zelmanowicz

(Chaim) Motl Zelmanowicz (c. 1914 – 16 October 2010 ) was a Bundist activist.

Zelmanowicz was born in Łódź, Poland. His father, Ephraim, was an activist in the General Jewish Labour Bund. At a very early age, he became an activist in the Bund in Poland, becoming the local chairman of S.K.I.F. (Sotsyalistishe Kinder Farband). In 1940, he moved to Seattle to escape from the Holocaust. He arrived with his brother, Shloyme, his future wife, Dr. Naomi Pat (known as Emma),

Zelmanowicz was on the board of directors and a Trustee for YIVO, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Folksbiene, a vice-president of the Jewish Daily Forward, one of the Vice-Chairs of the Democratic Socialists of America, member of the executive committee of the Jewish Labor Committee, He also assisted scholar Jack Lester Jacobs, the author of Bundist Counterculture in Interwar Poland, in his research.