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**David Grigor’evich Polyakov** was an
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[anarcho-syndicalist](Anarcho-Syndicalism "wikilink") and
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[anarcho-communist](Anarcho-Communism "wikilink") involved in assisting
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refugees from the
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[USSR](Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics "wikilink").
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## Life
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In 1918 he was a member of the Smolensk Federation of Anarchists. From
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the beginning of [1919](Russian_Civil_War "wikilink") he worked in
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various groups of the [Nabat Confederation of Anarchist Organization of
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Ukraine](Nabat_Confederation_of_Anarchist_Organizations "wikilink") and
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wrote for anarchist newspapers. In 1923, he was arrested in Moscow and
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sent to exile in Turkestan. He tried to return to his hometown of
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Smolensk, but soon escaped the country.
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By 1924 he was in Poland, then emigrated to France. Working in Paris as
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a tailor and mechanic, joining the 'Anarchist Union' in France as well
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as Russian and Jewish anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist groups
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in Paris. A short time he was in the [United General Confederation of
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Labour](United_General_Confederation_of_Labor_\(France\) "wikilink")
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(CGTU). In April 1925 he went illegally to Berlin and took part in
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organizing the escape of [Nestor Makhno](Nestor_Makhno "wikilink") from
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Moabit Prison. He helped Makhno cross the border into Belgium and took
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him to Paris.
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In 1930 he began working for the International Working Men’s Association
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(IWMA) and contacted other anarchists across the world (such as A.A.
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Kolemasov and S.A. Ruvinsky). He fled Paris in 1940 as the [Nazi German
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forces captured it](World_War_II "wikilink"). He returned following a
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promise for amnesty and work, but was arrested for refusing to wear a
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yellow star of david to identify him as Jewish. He was deported to
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[Auschwitz](Auschwitz "wikilink"), and was executed two months later by
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Nazis. |