Józef Unszlicht

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Jozef Unszlicht (nicknames Jurowski, Leon) (1879 - 1937), a communist (Bolshevik)activist. A member of Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania from 1900, he took part in Vladimir Lenin's October Revolution and in 1918 joined the Red Army.

In 1919 Unszlicht served briefly as an authority in Lithuania and Byelorussia, and in 1920 joined the Politburo of the Soviet party. During the Polish-Soviet War in August 1920 he became a member of Provisional Polish Revolutionary Committee, the Soviet puppet government of Poland in Bialystok.

In 1937 he was tried and executed during the Great Purges as a Polish communist, at the time of the deportation of the entire Polish minority from the Soviet Union. ^{[citation needed]}

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• Unszlicht files from his trial in 1937