Léon Monosson (21 December 1892, Shchedrin – 17 February 1943, Auschwitz) was a Belarusian–French chess master.
Born in Shtetl Shchedrin, near Bobruisk (Belarus), he took 10th in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) 1921[1] Then he emigrated to France.
[5] In January 1940, he played with Wilhelm Orbach, Josef Cukierman, etc., in Paris (Savielly Tartakower won).
[6] During World War II, he was deported from France to Auschwitz concentration camp where he died in 1943.
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