Rozenberg, Liudvyk

Rozenberg, Liudvyk (Розенберґ, Людвик; pseudonyms: Chornii, Lvivsky), b 1894, d 1940 in Lviv. Jewish Ukrainian political figure in Galicia. He graduated from the Ukrainian gymnasium in Rohatyn and was a member of Poale Zion from 1911. He enlisted in the Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen in 1914 and was captured by the Russians in 1916. After the Revolution of 1917 he served as a captain in the Sich Riflemen. He was a close friend of Roman Rozdolsky, and from 1920 he belonged to the Ukrainian Section of the Czech Communist party. In 1923 he was elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine, but he left the party in 1925. In the 1930s Rozenberg belonged to a Communist oppositionist group and contributed to the Lviv paper Narodnia sprava (Lviv); for his activities he was imprisoned in the Polish concentration camp at Bereza Kartuzka. He was arrested by the NKVD in Lviv in September 1939 and executed in prison.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 4 (1993).]