Alexander Schapiro (anarchist)
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Alexander Schapiro ( Russian Александр Петрович Шапиро ; born August 6, 1890 in Novosybkow , Russian Empire ; † 1942 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ; also Alexander Tanarow ) was a Ukrainian anarchist of Jewish descent and a publicist . He was the biological father of the mathematician Alexander Grothendieck .
Life
Schapiro, who also called himself "Alexander Tanarow" and was involved in revolutionary activities in Russia since 1905 , had to leave the country as a supporter of the Machno movement in the aftermath of the October Revolution and came to Berlin in 1926 , where he made his way as a photographer and Johanna "Hanka" Grothendieck got to know.
In 1934 he fled to Paris from the National Socialists . Hanka followed him a few months later. They left their son Alexander, born in 1928, in the care of Pastor Wilhelm Heydorn in Hamburg. They lived in different places in France and took part in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1938 on the side of the anarcho-syndicalist groups . In 1939 they returned to France and had their son come from Germany.
After the Wehrmacht occupied France , the whole family was arrested and separated. Mother and son were taken to the Camp de Rieucros women's internment camp near Mende and survived the war. Alexander Schapiro was first interned in the Le Vernet camp, then extradited to Germany by the Vichy regime and finally in 1942 was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau , where he was one of the first victims to be murdered.
Commemoration
On March 22, 2017 , stumbling blocks for him and his family were laid in front of his former place of residence, Berlin-Mitte , Brunnenstrasse 165 .
Web links
- Winfried Scharlau presents an unknown autobiographical novel by Hanka Grothendieck (PDF file; 284 kB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schapiro, Alexander |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tanarov, Alexander; Tanaroff, Alexander; Tanareff; Шапиро, Александр Петрович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian anarchist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1890 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Novosybkow , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1942 |
| Place of death | Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp |