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Naftali Botwin Company

The Naftali Botwin Company was a unit of the International Brigades which was made up from Jewish volunteers from various different countries.

History

The Naftali Botwin Company was formed in December 1937 by Jewish volunteers in December 1937. The company numbered 150 men and included Jewish volunteers from Poland, France, Belgium, Mandatory Palestine and Spain. Only 18 of the original 150 volunteers survived the war. The company was named after Naftali Botwin, a communist Polish Jew who was executed in 1925 for the murder of a police informant in Lwów.

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