Mandel Szkolnikoff

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Mandel Szkolnikoff (28 January 1895 – 10 June 1945), better known as Michel Szkolnikoff, was a French businessman.

Early life[]

Mandel Szkolnikoff was born on 28 January 1895 in Sharkawshchyna in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus. He was Jewish.^[1] He had a German passport.^[1]

Career[]

Szkolnikoff was a major economic collaborator in the occupied France during the Second World War. Less known than Joseph Joanovici, he made a considerable fortune by supplying the Kriegsmarine and then the SS, mainly in textile, and was described as "the man who pushed the practice of black market to an extreme.^[2]

He reinvented his returns to build a real estate empire.^[3]

Death[]

He was found dead on 10 June 1945 near Madrid in Spain.^[1]

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