Willy Schapiro
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BirthnameSalomon Wolf Willy Szapiro
Born25 May 1910
Died21 February 1944 (aged 33)
Causeof deathExecution by firing squad
Willy Schapiro | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Salomon Wolf Willy Szapiro |
| Born | 25 May 1910 |
| Died | 21 February 1944 (aged 33) |
| Cause of death | Execution by firing squad |
| Allegiance | PCF |
| Branch | FTP |
| Unit | FTP-MOI |
Salomon Willy Schapiro Wolf (also Szapiro or Schapira) (25 May 1910 in Skała, Poland – 21 February 1944, executed at the fort Mont Valérien), was a Polish Jew, and a soldier in the FTP-MOI French liberation army in the Manouchian group).
Schapiro left Poland around 1930 and emigrated to Palestine. He developed a workers' organisation whose aim was to hunt the British power which controlled the region after the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire in 1918. His activities brought about his arrest, then expulsion. He subsequently emigrated to Austria from 1933 to 1939.