Henri Czaplinski

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Henri Czaplinski (* 1889 in Aleksandrów Kujawski ; date and place of death unknown) was a Polish-Jewish violinist and music teacher.

Before World War II, Czaplinski was an internationally known violinist. From 1922 to 1923 he was a professor at the Hamburg Conservatory in Toronto , where Harry Adaskin was one of his students. Between 1925 and 1927 he was principal violinist with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra . He later worked as a professor at the Krakow and Lemberg Conservatories . In 1940 he was arrested by the NKVD and spent seven months in the NKVD prison in Bialystok . He managed to escape in a German bombardment on July 13, 1941. He then worked as a translator in various air force control centers in Belarus until he joined a partisan brigade near Minsk in March 1943 . Due to his work as a translator, he was transferred to Abakumov's military intelligence service SMERSCH in Moscow in May 1943, suspected of being a German spy . Nothing is known about his further fate; presumably he was murdered in custody.

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