Ilia Szrajbman Explained

Ilia Szrajbman
Birth Name:Lejzor Ilja Szrajbman
Birth Date:25 April 1907
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Death Place:Majdanek concentration camp, Poland
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Sport:Swimming
Event:freestyle
Club:Jewish Academic Sports Association and Legia
Nationals:
  • Polish 400m freestyle champion (1935)
  • Polish 4x200m relay freestyle champion (1938)

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.

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.[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

Notes and References

  1. News: Ilja Szrajbman . sports-reference.com . 2009-04-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121020184531/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sz/ilja-szrajbman-1.html . 2012-10-20 .
  2. Nigel McCrery (2021). The Undying Flame; Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War
  3. Web site: Makabi, Hasmonea i inne – historia sportu żydowskiego. 24 May 2016. REUNION 69.
  4. Agnes Grunwald-Spier (2017). Who Betrayed the Jews?; The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust
  5. Keith Rathbone (2020). "Antifascist Athletes? A Reappraisal of the 1936 Berlin Olympics"
  6. Web site: Ilja Szrajbman. Olympedia.
  7. Book: Kay Schaffer & Sidonie Smith. The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Rutgers University Press. pg 58, 61. 2000. 318. 0-8135-2820-8.
  8. Book: Paul Taylor. Jews and the Olympic Games: the clash between sport and politics: with a complete review of Jewish Olympic medallists. Sussex Academic Press. pg 106-107. 2004. 268. 1-903900-88-3.
  9. Web site: Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018 . Sports Reference.