Szmul Potasznik

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Szmul Potasznik (born April 5, 1909 in Kielce , † September 9 , 1943 in Schaerbeek ) was a Belgian Marxist resistance fighter of Polish - Jewish descent and was a victim of the Nazi regime .

Life

After Potasznik went to Belgium, he worked at the Free University of Brussels . Here he was in connection with Hersch Sokol one of the leading Polish Marxists at the university.

During the Second World War he belonged to a Jewish partisan group as part of the Belgian partisan army. He participated in several acts of sabotage , combined with the blackmail and killing of collaborators . With the money squeezed out by them, Potasznik, Maurice Rozencwajg and Wolf Weichman financed the resistance. A bounty of 500,000 Belgian francs was then announced. On February 16, 1943, he was arrested together with Rozencwaig and Weichmann in Saint-Gilles . He was sentenced to ten years of forced labor, but the sentence was later commuted to death . He was executed at the national shooting range on September 9, 1943. He was buried there that same day. His grave is in the grove of honor of the executed.

memory

  • In 2019, a stumbling block was laid in Brussels in his memory.

literature

  • Guillaume Bourgeois: La véritable histoire de l'Orchestre rouge , Nouveau Monde Editions, 2015, ISBN 978-2369420675
  • Les Enfants des Partisans Juifs de Belgique, Partisans Armés Juifs , 38 Témoignages, Brussels, 1991, Witness.be.
  • Wannes Devos, Kevin Gony: War, Occupation, Liberation: Belgium 1940–1945 , Lannoo, 2019, ISBN 9401455260
  • Maxime Steinberg, José Gotovitch: Otages de la terreur nazie: The Bulgarians Angheloff and the group of sons of the partisans - Bruxelles, 1940–1943, VUBPress, 2007, ISBN 978-90-5487-453-9
  • Des Pavés de Mémoire for the resistants Edmond Van Wezemael and de Szmul (Samuel) Potasznik seront posés à Forest ce mardi October 22, 2019 , consulted on November 25, 2019

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guillaume Bourgeois: La véritable histoire de l'Orchestre rouge , Nouveau Monde Editions, 2015, ISBN 978-2369420675
  2. ↑ Les Enfants des Partisans Juifs de Belgique, Partisans Armés Juifs, 38 Témoignages, Brussels, 1991, Witness.be.
  3. ↑ Wannes Devos, Kevin Gony, War, Occupation, Liberation: Belgium 1940–1945, Lannoo, 2019, ISBN 9401455260 .
  4. ↑ Maxime Steinberg, José Gotovitch, Otages de la terreur nazie: The Bulgarian Angheloff and son group of partisans - Bruxelles, 1940-1943, VUBPress, 2007 ISBN 978-90-5487-453-9 .
  5. ↑ Des Pavés de Mémoire for the resistants Edmond Van Wezemael and de Szmul (Samuel) Potasznik seront posés à Forest ce mardi October 22, 2019, consulted on November 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ http://www.restitution.be/arti-20191021093531-des_paves_de_memoire_pour_les_resistants_edmond_van_wezemael_et_de_szmul_samuel_potasznik_seront_poses_a_forest_ce_mardi_22_octobre_2019.html
personal data
SURNAME Potasznik, Szmul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Potasznik, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-Jewish Marxist resistance fighter against the German occupation of Belgium
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Kielce , Second Polish Republic
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1943
Place of death Schaerbeek