Samuel Erlik

Samuel Erlik was probably responsible for recruiting Maximowitch for Trepper; while in an internment camp in France in 1939 - 1940, gave his fellow-internee Maximowitch a letter of introduction to Madame Erlik and through her to Trepper.

Personal particulars.

Nationality: French.

Occupation: Engineer.

Relatives: Married to Trepper's courier MODESTE.

History.

Was interned in the autumn of 1939 in France as a Communist sympathiser.

Source: KV3/350.