Henryk Friedman (Friedmann) (1903–1942) was a Polish

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master. He lived in Lviv (Lwów, Lemberg). In 1926–1934, Friedman won seven times in succession the Championship of Lviv but 1930, when he took 2nd place behind Stepan Popel. Friedman played in four Polish championships. In 1926, he took 14th in Warsaw (1st POL-ch). The event was won by

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. In 1927, he took 13th in

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(2nd POL-ch). The event was won by

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. In 1935, he tied for 2nd-4th with Mieczysław Najdorf and Paulin Frydman, behind Ksawery Tartakower in Warsaw (3rd POL-ch). In 1936, he won in Vienna (19th Trebitsch-Turnier). In 1937, he took 12th in Jurata (4 th POL-ch). The event was won by Tartakower. Henryk Friedman played for Poland at fourth board (+5 –2 =5) in the 6th

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at Warsaw 1935. He won team bronze medal there. He also played at fifth board (+11 –0 =9) in unofficial Olympiad at Munich 1936, where he won two silver medals (team and individual). Henryk Friedman died probably in a German Nazi camp.

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Henryk Friedman at 365Chess.com
1903 births 1942 deaths Sportspeople from Lviv Jews from Galicia (Eastern Europe) Polish chess players Jewish chess players 20th-century chess players Polish people who died in Nazi concentration camps Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust Polish civilians killed in World War II {{Poland-chess-bio-stub

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