Monday 16 October 2017

LEON MIKHELSON

LEON MIKHELSON (b. ca. 1888)
            He was born in Warsaw.  From his youth he was involved in the Bundist movement.  After the Revolution of 1905, he was active in the illegal movement of business employees in Warsaw.  He served as one of the directors of the “Association of Jewish Cooperatives in Independent Poland.”  He contributed to publications of the Jewish cooperatives in Poland.  He died under Nazi rule in Warsaw.

Sources: Doyres bundistn (Generations of Bundists), vol. 2 (New York, 1956), p. 255; Unzer tsayt (New York) (December 1943).
Yankev Kahan


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