Nikolai Semyonovich Simakov

Nikolai Semjonowitsch Simakow ( Russian: Николай Семёнович Симаков ; * 1915 ; † 1970 ) was a Soviet engineer , communist , resistance fighter against National Socialism , prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp and head of the Soviet military resistance center.

Life

Simakov became a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). After the German Reich invaded the USSR , he was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp as a prisoner and assigned to the prisoner infirmary as a nurse . He participated in the prisoner resistance and became the head of the illegal Soviet military-political center of the International Military Organization (IMO). At the same time he was a member of the International Camp Committee (ILK).

When the Nazi rule was eliminated, he returned to the Soviet Union. There he worked as an engineer.

publication

• W. Dronow, Boris Nasirow, W. Luganow, Iwan Smirnow , Nikolai Simakow, G. Bartal: Vojna za koljucej provolokoj (German: "War behind barbed wire"), Moscow 1960, p. 218

literature

• Emil Carlebach / Willy Schmidt / Ulrich Schneider (eds.): Buchenwald a concentration camp. Reports - Pictures - Documents , Bonn 2000, p. 120, ISBN 3-89144-271-8
• Author collective: Buchenwald. Reminder and obligation. Documents and reports , Berlin 1983, p. 757