Naftali Botwin

Izaak Naftali Botwin (Yiddish: יצחק נפתלי באָטווין) (19 February 1905, Kamianka-Buzka, – 6 August 1925, Lwów) was a Polish communist and labour activist who was executed for the murder of a police informant.

[1] Two years later, he became an apprentice to a shoemaker, and worked as a leather cutter in a shoe shop, until he was sacked in April 1925, for political activism.

In 1922, Botwin joined the Tsukunft, the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Bund of the Russian Empire.

One assassination plot in Warsaw was exposed, and three communist party members were arrested and subsequently executed, after which Cechnowski moved to Lwów, where he believed there was less risk that he would be recognized.

[6] In December 1937 the Jewish volunteers of the Spanish Civil War formed the Naftali Botwin Company.

[7] It was a sub-unit of the Palafox Battalion of the International Brigades and of Jews who had completed the short training course but had not yet been placed in a combat force.