Full name | Żydowskie Towarzystwo Gimnastyczno-Sportowe „Makabi” w Warszawie | ||
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Founded | 1915 | ||
Dissolved | 1939; reactivated 2014 | ||
Ground | Warsaw, Poland | ||
Owner | Voluntary association | ||
Chairman | Zelik Weizmann (1915–1919), Jadwiga Rawet and Stenia Eizenberg (1920–1921), Zelman Bychowski (1922–1923), Borys Ferber (1923–1939) | ||
Website | https://www.facebook.com/MakabiWarszawa/ | ||
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Makabi Warszawa, in English Makabi Warsaw, founded in 1915 in Warsaw, Poland was a Polish sports club founded by the Jewish Gymnastic and Sports Association "Maccabi" in Warsaw. It was the largest multi-section Jewish sports club in the Second Polish Republic.
Makabi Warszawa suspended its activities in 1939 after upon the Nazi occupation of Poland during the Holocaust, as German occupation authorities banned all Jewish unions, associations, and sports clubs. It was reactivated in 2014.[1]