Léon Monosson was a Belarusian–French chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

 master.

Born in shtetl Shchedrin, near Bobruisk (Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

), he took 10th in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) 1921 Then he emigrated to France.

Dr Monosson was Paris Champion in 1935, He also took 5th in the 4th Paris City Chess Championship

Paris City Chess Championship

The first Paris City Chess Championship was held in 1925....

 1928 (Abraham Baratz

Abraham Baratz

Abraham Baratz was a Romanian–French chess master.In 1924, Baratz took 2nd, behind Eugene Znosko-Borovsky, in Paris. In 1925, he tied for 1st with Vitaly Halberstadt in the 1st Paris City Chess Championship. In 1925, he took 3rd in Paris . In January 1926, he won ahead of Dawid Janowski in Hyères...

 won),
and took 5th at Paris 1938 (L'Echiquier, Baldur Hoenlinger won).

In January 1940, he played with Wilhelm Orbach

Wilhelm Orbach

Wilhelm Orbach was a German chess master.He took 3rd at Oeynhausen 1922 ; took 4th at Frankfurt 1923 ; tied for 3rd-4th at Breslau 1925 ; won at Frankfurt am Main 1925 ; took 2nd at Ems 1926 .Orbach won at Hyères 1927; took 4th...

, Josef Cukierman

Josef Cukierman

Josef Cukierman was a Polish-born French chess master.- Biography :Cukierman was born near Bialystok, in 1900. He won the second Moscow City Championship . In early 1920s, Cukierman lived in Białystok, Poland, where he won a chess club championship in 1926...

, etc., in Paris (Savielly Tartakower

Savielly Tartakower

Ksawery Tartakower was a leading Polish and French chess Grandmaster. He was also a leading chess journalist of the 1920s and 30s...

 won). During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, he was deported from France to Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp

Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

where he died in 1943.