Leon Leibush GRABMAN

  Events

1. Note: Curriculum Vitae, 1916, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.

2. Picture, 1916, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland.

3. Burial: Leon Leibush Grabman grave, 1923, Nowy Dwor, Poland.

4. Note, 1923, Nowy Dwor, Poland. Born in Plonsk in 1897, he came to Nowy Dwor with his parents as a child. In Warsaw he found his place in the student circles of the Bundist youth organization, which was then called "Social Democratic Tsukumft [Future]." He got to know the Tsukumft leader Natan Safron and Leon Oler, who became a close friend. Leon Grabman threw himself into the renewed Bundist movement with youthful revolutionary zeal.
After finishing high school, he entered Warsaw University as a student in the medical faculty and was active in the student movement there. With the renewal of the Jewish workers' movement, he helped to establish the Bundist movement in Nowy Dwor, dedicating himself to this work with extraordinary devotion. At the time, he was one of the first students in the movement with such close ties to the workers' movement.
As a representative of the Bund, he also helped to organize the Polish workers and was among the founders of the workers' council in Nowy Dwor. He was one of the speakers at the meeting of the Jewish and Polish workers which took place in 1918 (in Rabinovitsh's salon). That meeting was remembered for its storminess and for the resistance its participants mounted to assaults by Polish legionnaires.
With his activity in the community, Leon Grabman began to pose a danger to the reactionary elements in town and the representatives of the young Polish regime viewed him with suspicion. Before long he was arrested and sent to the Dembie camp outside Krakow. There he fell ill and returned home physically devastated, but he continued with his political work until his illness defeated him.
As fate would have it, he died on the same tragic day, January 19, 1923, as Vladimir Medem, the central figure of the Bund. And the Bund in Nowy Dwor, doubly bereaved, sent off into eternity one of its best, Leon Grabman.
(Figures of the Nowy Dwor Bund by Chaim Babitz, Tel Aviv)

5. Signature: Signature on CV, 1923.

6. Burial: Back of picture of funeral of Leon Leibush Grabman, 11 January 1923, Nowy Dwor, Poland. Photo #1. Funeral of Comrade Leon Grabman, labor activist from Nowy Dwor, born in 1896, died on January 11th, 1923.
The photo was taken in Nowy Dwor in Zakroczymska Street going out from the City Garden.
Nowy Dwor, [...] January 23rd, 1923.

7. Burial: The funeral of friend Leon Grabman in Nowy Dwor 11-1-1923, 11 January 1923, Nowy Dwor, Poland.

8. Burial: Picture of the actual spot some 100 years later, 2023, Nowy Dwor, Poland. Zacruchimska Street in
Nowy Dwor at the exit of the Municipal Park