Naftali Botwin
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Izaak Naftali Botwin (Yiddish: יצחק נפתלי באָטווין) (19 February 1905, Kamianka-Buzka, – 6 August 1925, Lwów) was a Polish communist and labour activist who was executed for the murder of a police informant. During the Spanish Civil War the Naftali Botwin Company was named after Botwin.
Botwin was born as the eighth child of a poor Jewish family in Kamianka-Buzka, Poland (now Ukraine). His father died early, so Botwin was sent to work in a factory at the age of 13.[1] Two years later, he became an apprentice to a shoemaker, and worked as a leather cutter in a shoe shop, until he was sacked in April 1925, for political activism. In 1922, Botwin joined the Tsukunft, the youth organization of the General Jewish Labor Bund of the Russian Empire. A year later, he joined the labour union and became a member of the Communist Youth Union of Western Ukraine. In 1925, he became a member of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, which were active in eastern interbellum Poland.[2]