Ilia Szrajbman
Lejzor Ilia (also "Ilja") Szrajbman (April 25, 1907 – 1943) was a Jewish Polish Olympic freestyle swimmer. In 1935, he was the Polish 400m freestyle champion. He competed in the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, and for Poland at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. In 1938, he won a gold medal in the Polish 4x200m relay freestyle championship. Szrajbman was murdered in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration camp.
 Ilia Szrajbman | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman |
| Born | April 25, 1907 Warsaw, Poland |
| Died | 1943 (aged 35–36) Majdanek concentration camp, Poland |
| Sport | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Event(s) | freestyle |
| Club | Jewish Academic Sports Association and Legia |
| Achievements and titles | |
| National finals |
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Biography
Szrajbman was born in Warsaw, Poland.[1] His parents were Lejzor and Masha.[2] He attended Waclaw Szwedkowski Boys Junior High School in Siedlce, Poland.[2] He served as an officer in the Polish 9th Light Artillery Regiment.[2]
He was a Jewish Academic Sports Association and Legia swimmer.[3][4] In 1935, Szrajbman won the Polish 400m freestyle championship.[2]
Szrajbman was Jewish, and competed in the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.[5]
He competed for Poland at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the men's 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay in Berlin, Germany.[1][6]
In 1938, Szrajbman won a gold medal in the Polish 4x200m relay freestyle championship.[2]
In August 1939, Szrajbman was competing in the 1939 International University Games in Monte Carlo, but left the competition and went to Poland to fight the Germans with the Polish 30th Kani Rifle Regiment upon the outbreak of the September 1939 Invasion of Poland.[3][2] He later fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[3]
Szrajbman was murdered in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration camp.[7][8][9]
See also
References
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- Nigel McCrery (2021). The Undying Flame; Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War
- "Makabi, Hasmonea i inne – historia sportu żydowskiego". REUNION 69. 24 May 2016.
- Agnes Grunwald-Spier (2017). Who Betrayed the Jews?; The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust
- Keith Rathbone (2020). 🖉"Antifascist Athletes? A Reappraisal of the 1936 Berlin Olympics"
- "Ilja Szrajbman". Olympedia.
- Kay Schaffer & Sidonie Smith (2000). The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. pg 58, 61: Rutgers University Press. p. 318. ISBN 0-8135-2820-8.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - Paul Taylor (2004). Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists. pg 106-107: Sussex Academic Press. p. 268. ISBN 1-903900-88-3.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.