30 Facts About Abraham Rajchmann

For much of the 1930s, Abraham Rajchmann worked as an agent for the Comintern.

In 1937, Abraham Rajchmann was contacted by Leon Grossvogel, to request he obtain several Polish passports and to accompany several Jewish refugees to the consulate to act as interpreter, in their application for passports.

Abraham Rajchmann was introduced to Trepper, who used a codename to disguise his identity.

On 16 September 1939, Abraham Rajchmann was arrested and interned in Saint-Gilles prison.

Abraham Rajchmann felt that Rajchmann was conceited, foolhardy, and too quick to show contempt.

Abraham Rajchmann told Trepper that he was relatively well known in Brussels, so a new identity would be useless.

At the start of the German invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940, Abraham Rajchmann went into hiding with a friend.

Abraham Rajchmann's brother alighted at Tournai, while they both continued travelling to Montrejeau.

In September or October 1940, Abraham Rajchmann met Gruber and they crossed the demarcation line in Bordeaux.

Abraham Rajchmann left Gruber to meet his wife in Paris at the Caron Hotel in The Marais.

At the hotel, Abraham Rajchmann met up with Bob Isbutzki, who arranged for Abraham Rajchmann to meet Trepper, who ordered him to travel back to Brussels to continue his work providing identity documents for the group.

In September or October 1941, Trepper ordered Abraham Rajchmann to join Soviet agent Anatoly Gurevich, who operated from a safehouse located at 101 Rue des Atrebates in Brussels.

Abraham Rajchmann supplied identity documents for Makarov as well as a list of people who were wanted by the German authorities.

Abraham Rajchmann contacted Chief Inspector Charles Mathieu of the Belgian Police Judiciaire des Parquets to obtain the list.

Unknown to Abraham Rajchmann, Mathieu was a penetration agent, who were known in Germany as a V-Mann that was short for Vertrauens-mann.

The Funkabwehr found the secret room that Abraham Rajchmann used to forge documents, that contained blank passports and inks.

In late December 1941, or early 1941, Abraham Rajchmann again met Bob Isbutzki, who introduced him to Gurevich.

Abraham Rajchmann arranged for Malvina Gruber to escort Barcza and her son to Paris, where they were then escorted by another courier to the non-occupied zone.

Gurevich requested that Abraham Rajchmann find a hiding place for the radio transmitter the group had been using at the apartment.

Abraham Rajchmann suggest using the home of Chief Inspector Mathieu on 65 Avenue des Tilleuls in Brussels; the transfer was arranged in January 1942, via Bob Isbutzki.

Trepper insisted the seals should be authentic, so Abraham Rajchmann met a contact in Antwerp who provided the seals as well as certificates of good conduct.

Trepper instructed him to create a new identity for himself, so Jeffremov turned to Abraham Rajchmann who used his contact, Mathieu to source blank identity cards.

Abraham Rajchmann arranged with Jeffremov to pick the new identity cards up from Mathieu on 30 July 1942, at the middle of the bridge overhanging the Botanical Garden of Brussels in Brussels.

On 2 September 1942, Abraham Rajchmann had a meeting with Mathieu at the Cafe Isy, Avenue de la Porte de Hal, in Brussels to obtain the forged identity papers for himself and was arrested by Piepe.

Abraham Rajchmann was taken to Fort Breendonk where he was tortured for three days.

Abraham Rajchmann decided to cooperate with the Abwehr resulting in his betrayal of his mistress, Malvina Gruber, who was arrested on 12 October 1942.

On 28 October 1942, Abraham Rajchmann was taken back to Brussels where he met Gestapo officer Karl Giering, who led the Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle, a special commission established by the Gestapo and the Abwehr to capture members of the Red Orchestra.

Abraham Rajchmann was informed he would be allowed free movement but would still be considered a prisoner.

Piepe and Giering agreed that Abraham Rajchmann would be the best person to take to Paris to find Trepper.

In 1960, a report was created by a NATO Special Committee that stated that Abraham Rajchmann was living at 32 Avenue Jean Voiders, St Gilles, Belgium.