Naftali Botwin Collection, Existential realities and the fate of his own, 1925-1925
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Brief Description:

This collection comprises narratives from Jewish, Ukrainian and Polish periodicals reflecting the fate of Naftali Botwin, Jewish communist in Lviv (Lwow). Naftali Botwin, acting on the order of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, assassinated an informant of Polish political police, Josef Cenhnowski on Trybunalska Street in Lviv (Lwow) on July 28, 1925.

He was tried by Summary Tribunal and sentenced to death. Polish President Stanislaw Wojcechowski rejected his right of pardon.

Jewish establishment of Lviv (Lwow), largely concerned with the Steiger Affair (Trial) distanced from interventions on behalf of Naftali Botwin. For them it was politically harmful to recognize a Jewish communist as a Jew. They would see him as a communist.

Summary trial of Botwin contrasted with a long lasted Jury trial over Stanislaw Steiger in 1925.

Held at:
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
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Los Angeles, CA 90036
Phone: 323-651-3704
Fax: 323-843-9518
Email: archive [at] lamoth.org
Record Series Number: RG-106/RG-106
Created by: Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian periodicals publishe in Lviv (Lwow) and Eastern Galicia (1925)
Volume: 1.0 Folders
Biographical Note for Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian periodicals publishe in Lviv (Lwow) and Eastern Galicia (1925) : Periodicals in Jewish, Polish and Ukrainian language published in Lviv (Lwow) and Eastern Galicia, interwar
Subject Index
Active Jewish members of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, interwar
Agents of Polish Political Police, interwar
Defense lawyers in Botwin trial, August 1925
Distancing of Jewish public figures from Naftali Botwin, Lviv (Lwow), 1925
Dr. Aksner, defense lawyer in Botwin trial, Lviv (Lwow), August 1925
Dr. Shukhevych, defense lawyer in Botwin trial, Lviv (Lwow), August 1925
Jewish youth attracted to communist ideology, Lviv (Lwow), interwar Poland
Josef Cechnowski, agent of Polish Political Police, interwar
Naftali Botwin, biography, 1905 -- 1925
Naftali Botwin, Jewish communist, Communist Party of Western Ukraine, Lviv (Lwow), interwar
Naftali Botwin, Jewish communist, personal story, Lviv
Naftali Botwin, member of Communist Party of Western Ukraine, Lviv (Lwow), interwar
Naftali Botwin, murder of Josef Cechnowski, informant of Polish Political Police, Lviv (Lwow), 1925
Naftali Botwin, Summary trial, Lviv (Lwow), August 1925
Naftali Botwin, the course of summary trial, Lviv  (Lwow), August 1925
Presiding Judge in Botwin trial, August 1925
Prosecution in Naftali Botwin trial, Ausgust 1925
Summary Tribunal, East Galicia, interwar
Summary Tribunal, interwar Poland
Languages of Materials
Polish [pol]
Ukrainian [ukr]