Henri Czaplinski
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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- YAD VASHEM - Page of Testimony - Czaplinski, Henri
- Vadim Birstein: "Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon" , Biteback Publishing, 2013, ISBN 9781849546898
- World War II Database : July 13, 1941
- World War II Database : March 18, 1943
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SURNAME | Czaplinski, Henri |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-Jewish violinist and music teacher |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Aleksandrów Kujawski |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |