Jean Laffitte (writer)

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Jean Laffitte (born March 24, 1910 in Agnac , Lot-et-Garonne department , † October 16, 2004 ibid) was a French socialist writer and politician .

Life

After attending elementary school, he learned the bakery trade and joined the labor movement at an early age . In 1933 he joined the French Communist Party . Until September 1939 he was Political Secretary to Chairman Jacques Duclos . As a soldier, he was taken prisoner by Germany in 1940 , from which he was able to escape. Laffitte participated in the Resistance in the fight against the German occupiers . He was involved in the establishment of a National Front in the Paris region. On May 14, 1942, he was arrested in Saint-Mandé and transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp . In 1943 he was transferred to the Ebensee concentration camp , from which he was liberated in May 1945. With his book “Die Lebenden” (German 1950) he reported from his own experience about the resistance of French communists in the concentration camp.

From 1949 to 1956 he was Secretary General of the World Peace Council under the presidency of Frédéric Joliot-Curie .

Works

  • Žijí, kdo bojují . Svoboda, Prague 1949
  • Rose France . VVN-Verlag, Berlin 1952
  • We'll be picking cowslips again . Dietz, Berlin 1951
  • Commandant Marceau . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1957
  • Rose France . Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1956
  • The living . Dietz, Berlin 1950
  • Attack on Sainte-Assise , in: Kleine Jugendreihe, vol. 11 (1960), issue 3

literature

  • Gerhard Steiner (Hrsg.): Lexicon of world literature. Foreign language writers and anonymous works from the beginning to the present . Volksverlag, Weimar 1963, p. 373

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personal data
SURNAME Laffitte, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French communist, resistance fighter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Agnac
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2004
Place of death Agnac