Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski (born October 8, 1901 – April 4, 1964 ) was a Polish-Austrian physicist, writer and businessman of Jewish descent. His testimony in the trial David Rousset vs. Les Lettres francaises and his book The Accused contributed significantly to spreading knowledge about Stalinist terror and show trials in Western Europe.
6-452: Weissberg is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski , Polish-Austrian physicist Eric Weissberg , American musician Isaac Jacob Weissberg (1841–1904), Hebrew writer Leib Weissberg , Polish rabbi Peter Weissberg , British physician Robert Weissberg , American political scientist Roger Weissberg , American psychologist Drossel Weissberg,
12-536: A Jewish family. His father was a businessman. The family moved to Vienna, where Weissberg studied and worked as a physicist. Weissberg emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1931 to work as a physicist. He founded the Soviet Journal of Physics . In doing so he came to know Bukharin . It was this relationship with Bukharin that was later to become central to the regime's attempt to frame Weissberg as part of
18-701: A conspiracy to assassinate Stalin. He was imprisoned for four years in the Soviet Union. Weissberg was handed over to the Gestapo by Stalin as part of the prisoner exchange in the Nazi–Soviet pact (also known as the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact) in 1939. Koestler's preface explains how the advocacy of fellow physicist Albert Einstein was instrumental in securing the Nazi release of Weissberg. During World War II he changed his surname to Weissberg-Cybulski, taking
24-492: A fictional character from Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey See also [ edit ] Yuliya Veysberg , Russian music critic [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Weissberg . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to
30-475: The link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weissberg&oldid=1110221100 " Categories : Surnames Ashkenazi surnames German toponymic surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata All set index articles Alexander Weissberg-Cybulski Weissberg was born in 1901 in Kraków , to
36-593: The name of Graf Cybulski, his wife's first husband. He died on April 4, 1964; his place of death is stated as either Paris or London. His book The Accused (1951) is also published under the title Conspiracy of Silence (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1952). The preface is by Weissberg's friend Arthur Koestler (awarded the Sonning Prize in 1968 for contribution to European culture). The book also included copies of letters which Einstein and Joliot-Curie sent to Stalin, requesting his release. Weissberg also wrote
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