Leon Schwartzmann

Leon Schwartzmann (Szwarcman, Szwarzman, Schwarzman, Schwarzmann) (1887, Warsaw – 1942, Auschwitz) was a Polish–French chess master.

[1] He was born in Warsaw, Poland (then Russian Empire) into a Jewish family, and studied in Sankt Petersburg.

In 1924, he tied for 3rd-4th with Dawid Przepiórka, behind Alexander Flamberg and Moishe Lowtzky won).

During World War II, he was arrested and transported to Auschwitz, where he was murdered on 3 September 1942.

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