Name Abram Szpiro | Role Chess master | |
Died February 16, 1943, Auschwitz concentration camp, Oswiecim, Poland | ||
Abram (Abraham) Szpiro (1912, Stringenau, German Empire — 16 February 1943, Auschwitz) was a Polish chess master.
Born in Germany, he moved with his family to Lodz, Poland. He tied for 7-8th (1930), shared 4th (1931), and twice took 6th (1933 and 1934) in Lodz City championships. He represented Lodz in the 2nd Polish Team Chess Championship at Katowice 1934. Szpiro won individual gold medal on fourth board, defeating Izak Schachter, Leon Tuhan-Baranowski, Henryk Friedman, etc., and team silver medal.
In 1934/35, he took 2nd in Poznan, and won at Poznan 1935. He tied for 2nd-5th at Lodz 1935, tied for 6-7th at Warsaw 1935 (the 3rd Polish Chess Championship won by Savielly Tartakower), won at Czestochowa 1936, tied for 7-8th at Jurata 1937 (international, the 4th POL-ch, Tartakower won), took 2nd (1937) and shared 4th (1939) in Lodz City championships.
During World War II, he lived in Lodz and Warsaw. He took 2nd, behind Henryk Pogoriely, at the Warsaw Ghetto tournament in February—April 1942. At the beginning of 1943, he was arrested in the Ghetto, transported to Nazi concentration camp and killed in Auschwitz.