He was counted among the strongest players in North-Eastern region of Poland, one of the successors coming from these lands, the masters of this class, as Akiba Rubinstein and David Janowski. A special curiosity was the fact of the similarity of Aron Zabłudowski to the famous Jose Raul Capablanca, which was emphasized, among others, by David Przepiorka, who came across Zabłudowski as the judge of the championships of North-Eastern Region of Poland.

Zabłudowski deserved to popularize chess in Bialystok, among others through simultaneous performances. In 1937, after one of them, in which he won seventeen games, and two lost and drew, he was honored by the president of Bialystok Chess Club Lerner with a commemorative cigarette case engraved with the inscription "for the promotion of the royal game in the region".

After the outbreak of World War II, over the period 1939–1941, in Bialystok, occupied by the Soviet army, chess life was frozen. In the summer of 1941, the city passed into German hands. In August of the same year Zabłudowski shared the tragic fate of Białystok Jews, burnt alive at the local synagogue by an Einsatzgruppe.

Aron Zabłudowski, Abram Nowodworski szachowi mistrzowie z Białegostoku Mariusz:

http://www.wspolczesna.pl/sport/inn...

<Jean Defuse: ... BCM - QUOTES AND QUERIES by Ken Whyld:

No. 5595 - In The Holocaust by Martin Gilbert, p. 161, David Picken found an ac­count of the treatment of Jews in Bialystok in June 1941. Some were herded into a syna­ gogue, which was set on fire, and burnt to death. Amongst them was Zabludowski 'a celebrated chess player'. David adds 'I have never heard of him, who was he?'

Somebody said that there are no difficult questions, only difficult answers. There was a J. Zabludowski who played in the 1st Baltic tournament at Riga, 1899. This is the first game in 'Reshevsky on Chess'.

The Polish ches historian, Tomasz Lissowski, comments 'The summer 1941 was a terrible time in northern parts of Po­land, in many places Jews were massacred. It is a job for profesional historians to state if those cruel acts were (at all) stimulated by Gestapo/SS, and if so, to what degree.

The history of chess in Bialystok is hardly known. That part of the country produced several stars: Rosenthal (Suwalki), Janowski (Wolkowysk), Rubinstein (Stawiski), Perlis (Bialystok). The name Zabludowski was not common, but its formation was popular among Polish Jews - Zabludowski - a man from Zabludow - a small town 40 km from Bialystok. Nobody can say, with full scien­ tific impartiality, if the man mentioned by Gilbert, the opponent of Reshevsky, and the player at Riga 1899 were the same person.'>

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hemy: Aron Zabludowsky was born in 1909 in Bialystok. Fathers name - Chaim Zvi. Profession - chess player. On July 27, 1941 he was burnt to death in synagogue in Bialystok. Source: Central Database of Shoah (Holocaust) https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDeta... The details of this testimony were taken from the book "The stories our parents found too painful to tell" by Rafael Rajzner and Henry R. Lew, page 54.

Another testimony: Ahron Zabludowski (Aharon Zabludovski) was born in Bialystok, Poland in 1909. He was a שחקן שחמט (chess player) and married. Prior to WWII he lived in Bialystok, Poland. During the war he was in Bialystok, Poland. Ahron was murdered in the Shoah.

In the original hand written Testimony in Hebrew: Profession - "שחמטאי מפורסם" (well known chess player). Date of Death - June 27, 1941.

This information is based on a Page of Testimony submitted by his acquaintance, Rakhel Lakher.

Source: Page of Testimony - Yad Vashem. https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDeta...

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<hemy: In the Polish chess magazine "Szachista", December 1933 on the pages 169-170 and 190-191 was published an article about Bialystok city chess club championship. The 9 players tournament was held from October 8, 1933 to November 11, 1933. First place shared A. Zabludowski and T. Melamed (6/8). On the November 19, 1933 started match between the winners for the champion title. Melamed won the match (+2 =1 -1). Two games of Zabludowski were published in this magazine, with Melamed from the match and with Babkes from the tournament.>

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hemy: Zabludowski staying 4th from right in the upper row on the picture of the organizers and participants of the Poland North Eastern Borderlands team tournament: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qoilo2ebb...

Wilna (Vilnius), Bialystok, Grodno and Lida participated in the 6 rounds tournament that was held in Lida (October 18, 1934 - October 21, 1934). Polish Chess Federation, delegated to Lida as a Tournament Manager the Vice-President of the Association, Master David Przepiorka.

Results of the tournament:
Wilno - 22.5, Bialystok - 22, Grodno - 16, Lida - 11.5.

Zabludowski played on the 2nd board of Bialystok and finished with 4/6 (+2 =4 -0).