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Abraham Leon
Abraham Leon (1918- 1944) (born Abraham Wejnstok), was a Jewish Trotskyist activist and theorist. He was born in Warsaw but his family moved to Belgium where he grew up. Leon became a member and then leader of the Belgian branch of Hashomer Hatzair, a left wing Zionist youth movement. In 1940, after the beginning of World War II, Leon rejected Zionism and became a Trotskyist joining the Belgian section of the Fourth International and became a leading organiser and resistance leader against Nazi occupation. He wrote The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation which remains a widely used Marxist analysis of Jewish history.
Leon was arrested by the Nazis in June 1944 and deported to Auschwitz where he died in September.
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