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Title: David Grigor’evich Polyakov Author: Kirill Limanov Date: March 2012 Language: en Topics: biography Source: Retrieved on 19th May 2021 from https://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/h44k6k Notes: With thanks to Paul Sharkey, David Berry, Rolf Dupuy, militants-anarchistes.info, Anatolii Dubovik and Black Cat Press. Translated by: Malcolm Archibald.
Polyakov (Polyakoff) David Grigor’evich (Poliakoff, David) (25.12.1892,
Smolensk – 12.9.1942, Oświęcim [Auschwitz], Poland). Anarchist. In 1918
he was a member of the Smolensk Federation of Anarchists. From the
beginning of 1919 he worked in various groups of the Confederation of
Anarchist Organization of Ukraine “Nabat” and collaborated in putting
out the anarchist newspaper La Libre féderation (Lausanne, 1915–1919).
In 1923 Polyakov was arrested in Moscow and sentenced to exile in
Turkestan, from there returned to Smolensk, but on the way escaped.
By 1924 he was in Poland, then emigrated to France. [He lived in the
20^(th) and 11^(th) arrondissements of Paris. He worked as a tailor and
later as a mechanic.] He was a member of the French “Anarchist Union” as
well as Russian and Jewish anarchist groups in Paris. A short time he
was in the Unitary General Confederation of Labour (CGTU). In April 1925
he went illegally to Berlin and took part in organizing the escape of N.
I. Makhno from Moabit Prison. He helped Makhno cross the border into
Belgium and took him to Paris.
After the split the Abroad Organisation of the Russian
Anarchist-Communists “Delo Truda” in 1928, he joined Nicolas Lazarévitch
and Ida Mett to form the Collective of the Russian Workers Anarchists
and Anarcho-Syndicalists (Kollektiv russkikh rabochikh anarkhistov i
anarkho-sindikalistov), which published the magazine “Osvobozhdenie
Profsoiuzov” (Paris, November 1928).
From November 1930 Polyakov was a member of the “Relief Fund of the
International Working Men’s Association (IWMA) for Anarchists and
Anarcho-Syndicalists Imprisoned or Exiled in Russia”; among other, he
corresponded with the exiled anarchists A.A. Kolemasov, S.A. Ruvinsky.
As a representative of the Fund he took part in the 4^(th) Congress of
the IWA (Madrid, 16–21.6.1931).
On the eve of the capture of Paris by German forces in May, 1940, he
fled to the west of France, but then had to return to occupied Paris. He
refused to wear the yellow Star of David, was arrested in the street,
and as a Jew he was deported on 22.6.1942 on Convoy (Transport) No. 3
from the Drancy transit camp to Oświęcim (Auschwitz). Convoy arrived at
Auschwitz 24.6.1942. Polyakov had a camp serial number 41050. He was
executed by the Nazis in Oświęcim on 12.8.1942.
Archives:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Alexander Berkman
Papers. Inv. no. 53.
International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, Senya Fléchine
Papers, Folder 81.
Jacques Doubinsky to Mollie Steimer and Senya Fléchine, Paris, December
17, 1929, International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, Senya
Fléchine Papers, Folder 87; November 20, 1930, IISG, Senya Fléchine
Papers, Folder 87; December 26, 1930, IISG, Senya Fléchine Papers,
Folder 87.
Death books from Auschwitz Concentration camp / Państwowe Muzeum
Oświęcim-Brzezinka, p. 19856/1942.
Literature:
[Maximov, G. P.] “David Polyakov” / Delo truda – Probuzhdeniye. New
York. 1946. October-November, No. 19, p. 25.
Yelensky, B. In the Struggle for Equality: The Story of the Anarchist
Red Cross. Chicago: Alexander Berkman Aid Fund, 1958. p.77.
Le mémorial de la déportation des juifs de France / Beate et Serge
Klarsfeld.— Paris, 1978.
Memorial to the Jews deported from France, 1942–1944: documentation of
the deportation of the victims of the Final Solution in France / S.
Klarsfeld. Paris: Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1983.
Bianco, R., Répertoire des périodiques anarchistes de langue française:
un siècle de presse anarchiste d’expression française, 1880–1983.
Aix-Marseille, 1987.
SterbebĂĽcher von Auschwitz: Fragmente = Death books from Auschwitz =
Ksiegi zgonĂłw z Auschwitz. Deutsche Ausgabe: Berichte.
Namensverzeichnis. Annex. Band 1–3 / hrsg.vom Staatlichen Museum
Auschwitz-Birkenau. [Red.: JerzyDČ©bski]. MĂĽnchen: K.G. Saur, 1995.
Skirda, A. Nestor Makhno: Cossack of Freedom (1888–1934). The Civil War
and the Struggle for Free Soviets in Ukraine 1917–1921. — Paris:
Hromada: 2001.