Aron Skrobek

Aron Skrobek (14 January 1889 – 21 July 1943) was a trade unionist and journalist, a member of the Jewish Labour Bund and the Communist Party of Poland, a pre-war political prisoner of the Bereza Kartuska Prison^[1] after he fled to France from the political repression in Poland he wrote of Pilsudski regime using the pen name David Kutner.^[2]

Commemorative plaque in Paris, Rue des Trois-Frères n° 4

In World War II, he was active in the French Resistance in Paris. He was arrested by the French police in July 1943,^[3] handed over to the SS and executed at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp.^[4]

References

1. "Poland sends Jew, 10 Naras to Penal Camp (July 9, 1934)". Jewish Telegraph Agency. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
2. Goldman, René (2006). Une femme juive dans les tourmentes du siècle passé: Sophie Schwartz-Micnik (1905-1999). AGP. p. 12. ISBN 9782952365116.
3. Raysky, Adam (2002). "The Jewish Underground Press in France and the Struggle to Expose the Nazi Secret of the Final Solution". In Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck (ed.). The Holocaust and History: The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed and the Re-examined. Indiana University Press. p. 628. ISBN 9780253215291. Retrieved 19 May 2013.
4. "SKROBEK Aron dit KUTNER David" (in French). Maitron Biographical Dictionary. Retrieved 19 May 2013.