Henri Polak
Dutch politician
Died when: 74 years 361 days (899 months)Star Sign: Pisces
Henri Polak (22 February 1868 – 18 February 1943) was a Dutch trade unionist and politician.Polak is best remembered as a longtime president of the General Diamond Workers' Union of the Netherlands (ANDB) and as a founder of the Dutch Social Democratic Workers' Party in 1894.
Targeted as a Jew, a socialist, and a trade unionist, Polak was arrested by the Nazis in 1940 but died early in 1943 before he could be deported.
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