Lejzor Ilia (also "Ilja") Szrajbman (April 25, 1907 – 1943) was a Jewish Polish Olympic freestyle swimmer. In 1935, he was the Polish 400m 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 4x200m 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. He attended Waclaw Szwedkowski Boys Junior High School in Siedlce, Poland. He served as an officer in the Polish 9th Light Artillery Regiment.

Ilia Szrajbman

He was a Jewish Academic Sports Association and Legia swimmer. In 1935, Szrajbman won the Polish 400m freestyle championship.

Ilia Szrajbman

Szrajbman was Jewish, and competed in the 1935 Maccabiah Games in Mandatory Palestine.

Ilia Szrajbman

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 4x200m 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

References

1907 births

1943 deaths

Competitors at the 1935 Maccabiah Games

Jewish military personnel

Jewish swimmers

Maccabiah Games competitors for Poland

Maccabiah Games swimmers

Military personnel from Warsaw

Olympic swimmers for Poland

People from Warsaw Governorate

People who died in Majdanek concentration camp

Polish civilians killed in World War II

Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust

Polish male freestyle swimmers

Polish military personnel of World War II

Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Swimmers from Warsaw

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising insurgents