Lejzor Ilia (also "Ilja") Szrajbman (April 25, 1907 – 1943) was a Jewish Polish Olympic freestyle swimmer. In 1935, he was the Polish 400 m freestyle champion. He competed in the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine, and for Poland at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. In 1938, he won a gold medal in the Polish 4×200 m relay freestyle championship. Szrajbman was murdered in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration camp.
Biography Szrajbman was born in Warsaw, Poland. His parents were Lejzor and Masha.Nigel McCrery (2021). The Undying Flame; Olympians Who Perished in the Second World War He attended Waclaw Szwedkowski Boys Junior High School in Siedlce, Poland. He served as an officer in the Polish 9th Light Artillery Regiment.
He was a Jewish Academic Sports Association and Legia swimmer.Agnes Grunwald-Spier (2017). Who Betrayed the Jews?; The Realities of Nazi Persecution in the Holocaust In 1935, Szrajbman won the Polish 400m freestyle championship.
Szrajbman was Jewish, and competed in the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.Keith Rathbone (2020). 🖉"Antifascist Athletes? A Reappraisal of the 1936 Berlin Olympics"
He competed for Poland at the 1936 Summer Olympics in the men's 4 × 200 metres freestyle relay in Berlin, Germany.
In 1938, Szrajbman won a gold medal in the Polish 4×200 m relay freestyle championship.
In August 1939, Szrajbman was competing in the 1939 International University Games in Monte Carlo, but left the competition and went to Poland to fight the Germans with the Polish 30th Kani Rifle Regiment upon the outbreak of the September 1939 Invasion of Poland. He later fought in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Szrajbman was murdered in 1943 in the Majdanek concentration camp.
See also List of select Jewish swimmers
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