Jerzy Lewi

Who was Jerzy Lewi?

Jerzy Lewi was a Polish chess master.

He won five-times Polish Junior championships in 1965–1969. He took 3rd, behind Anatoly Karpov and Andras Adorjan, at Groningen 1967. In 1968, he tied for 2nd-5th in Łódź. In 1969, he won in Lublin. He took 12th at Athens 1969, and had decided to stay in the West. As a refugee, because of the 1968 Polish political crisis, he lived in Sweden where he died in a traffic accident. He was buried in a Jewish cemetery in Malmö.