Simón Radowitzky (10 September or 10 November 1891 – 29 February 1956) was a militant Argentine worker and anarchist. He was one of the best-known prisoners of the penal colony in

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, where he was held for the assassination of

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, a head of police responsible for the brutal repression of Red Week in 1909 in

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. Radowitzky was pardoned after 21 years, he left Argentina and fought with the

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during the

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. He died in Mexico where he worked in a factory making toys. The story of his life is described in the travel book '' In Patagonia'' by the English author

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Early years

He immigrated to Argentina in March 1908; he settled in the city of Campana,

where he worked as a mechanical worker in the workshops of the

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. There, he maintained close contacts with the growing local anarchist community, reading ''La Protesta'', the newspaper of the ''Federación Obrera Regional Argentina''; through the Federation he came into contact with a group of intellectual anarchists of

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n origin, including Pablo Karaschin — author of an attack on the occasion of the funeral of Carlos de Borbón — José Buwitz, Iván Mijin, Andrés Ragapeloff, Máximo Sagarín, and Moisés Scutz. After living in Campana, he moved to the city of

where he lived with some of these while serving as a blacksmith and mechanic.

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Simon Radowitzky, Open Letter to the Uruguayan Communist Party and CGT
1936 1891 births 1956 deaths Argentine anarchists Argentine anti-fascists Argentine expatriates in Mexico Argentine Jews Argentine expatriates in Spain Illegalists Emigrants from the Russian Empire to Argentina Jews from the Russian Empire Insurrectionary anarchists Jewish anarchists People from Campana, Buenos Aires Ukrainian anarchists {{anarchist-stub

Early years

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