Leon Schwartzmann (1887, Warsaw – 1942 Auschwitz) was a Polish–French chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

He was born in Warsaw, Poland (then Russian Empire) into a Jewish family, and studied in Sankt Petersburg. In 1911, he tied for 5-6th in St Petersburg (Ilya Rabinovich

Ilya Rabinovich

Ilya Rabinovich was a Russian chess master.-Biography:In 1911 Ilya Leontievich Rabinovich tied for 1st with Platz in Saint Petersburg...

 and Platz won). In 1913, he took 2nd, behind Platz, in St Petersburg.

After World War I

World War I

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, he lived in Poland. In 1919, he took 6th in Warsaw (Zdzislaw Belsitzmann

Zdzislaw Belsitzmann

Zdzisław Belsitzmann was a Polish chess master.Belsitzmann lived in Warsaw, where he played several times in tournaments with top Polish chess masters. In 1913, he drew a match against Salomon Langleben . He tied for 4-5th in 1916/17, and 3rd-4th in 1917, both with Alexander Flamberg, and both...

 won). In 1924, he tied for 3rd-4th with Dawid Przepiórka

Dawid Przepiórka

Dawid Przepiórka was a prominent Polish chess player of the early twentieth century.Dawid Przepiórka was born 22 December 1880 in Warsaw, Poland , to a family of wealthy landowners and entrepreneurs of Jewish extraction...

, behind Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg

Alexander Flamberg was a Polish chess master.-Biography:Alexander Davidovich Flamberg born in Warsaw , spent his early years in England, where he learnt to play chess. After return to Warsaw, he became one of the strongest Polish chess players. In 1900, he took 2nd, behind Salomon Langleben, in...

 and Moishe Lowtzky

Moishe Lowtzky

-Biography:He was born into a Jewish family in Ukraine. In 1903, Lowtzky tied for 6-7th with Eugene Znosko-Borovsky in Kiev . The event was won by Mikhail Chigorin. In 1903, he took 4th in Dresden . In 1904, he tied for 2nd-3rd in Coburg . In 1910, he tied for 1st with Thoenes in Hamburg...

 won).

In the middle of 1920s, he moved to France. In 1926, Schwartzmann won the 2nd Paris City Chess Championship

Paris City Chess Championship

The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925....

. In 1927, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Henry Grob, behind Wilhelm Orbach

Wilhelm Orbach

Wilhelm Orbach was a German chess master.He took 3rd at Oeynhausen 1922 ; took 4th at Frankfurt 1923 ; tied for 3rd-4th at Breslau 1925 ; won at Frankfurt am Main 1925 ; took 2nd at Ems 1926 .Orbach won at Hyères 1927; took 4th...

, in Hyères. In 1927, he tied for 10-12th in Paris (Abraham Baratz

Abraham Baratz

Abraham Baratz was a Romanian–French chess master.In 1924, Baratz took 2nd, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in Paris. In 1925, he tied for 1st with Vitaly Halberstadt in the 1st Paris City Chess Championship. In 1925, he took 3rd in Paris . In January 1926, he won ahead of Dawid Janowski in Hyères...

 won). In 1928, he tied for 2nd-3rd with Josef Cukierman

Josef Cukierman

Josef Cukierman was a Polish-born French chess master.- Biography :Cukierman was born near Bialystok, in 1900. He won the second Moscow City Championship . In early 1920s, Cukierman lived in Białystok, Poland, where he won a chess club championship in 1926...

, behind Baratz, in the 4th Paris Championship. In 1929, he tied for 8-9th in Paris (Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

 won). In 1936, he played in the 12th Paris Championship (Nicolas Rossolimo

Nicolas Rossolimo

Nicolas Rossolimo was an American-French-Russian-Greek chess Grandmaster. He was many times champion of Paris, France, and after relocating to the United States won the 1955 U.S. Open Championship...

 won).

During World War II

World War II

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, at the end of his life was arrested and transported to Auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration camp

Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

, where he died on 3 September 1942.