Suzanne Masson
Suzanne Masson (born July 10, 1901 in Doullens / Somme ; † November 1, 1943 in Hamburg ) was a French trade unionist and communist as well as a resistance fighter in the Resistance . She was executed in the courtyard of the Hamburg remand prison.
Life
Suzanne Masson was an industrial draftsman and worked in the turbine factory Rateau (now Alstom) in La Courneuve from the mid-1920s . In 1926 she became a member of the Confédération générale du travail unitaire union . In February 1934 she joined the Parti communiste français . In 1938 she was dismissed from Rateau because of her involvement in strikes. After the French Communist Party was banned in 1939, she continued her work in illegality.
In June 1940 she distributed leaflets and organized people's committees (comités populaires) in Paris, which was occupied by the German Wehrmacht . In La Courneuve , she played a key role in setting up the Resistance group there. On February 5, 1942, she was arrested by the French police, first in La Roquette , later in La Santé , and finally extradited to the Gestapo and taken to Germany. In June 1943, the court in Lübeck sentenced her to death twice . She declined to submit a pardon and stated in court that it was her duty as a French patriot and communist to fight for humanity.
On November 1, 1943, she was executed with the guillotine in Hamburg .
Honors
In 2014, a memorial plaque for the two French resistance fighters France Bloch-Sérazin and Suzanne Masson was inaugurated on the grounds of the Lübeck JVA , the former Lauerhof women's prison . Suzanne Masson was imprisoned here from June 1943 to October 1943, until she was executed with the guillotine in the Hamburg remand prison on Holstenglacis.
In the Hamburg ramparts, a plaque on the back wall of the Holstenglacis remand prison commemorates Suzanne Masson and France Bloch-Sérazin, also a woman from the Resistance who was executed in Hamburg on February 12, 1943. The inscription reads:
- France Bloch-Sérazin
- * February 21, 1913 † February 12, 1943
- Suzanne Masson
- * July 10, 1901 † November 1, 1943
- These two French women were beheaded with the guillotine in this prison because of their resistance to the National Socialist tyranny in occupied France.
In Paris, a street and a trade union educational institution, the Center Suzanne Masson, are named after her.
See also
- Resistance to National Socialism
- Women in the Resistance
- Hamburg memorials for the victims of National Socialism
Web links
- Memorial plaques in the ramparts , accessed on February 21, 2010.
- Signposts to places of remembrance of the years 1933 to 1945 , memorial “Here and Now”, accessed on November 14, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mémoire et Espoirs de la Résistance ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 21, 2010.
- ↑ Commemoration of executed prisoners. In: Lübecker Nachrichten of November 12, 2014, p. 13. Author abbreviation km.
- ^ Board of remand prison Holstenglacis honor board
- ↑ Le Center de Réadaptation Professionnelle SUZANNE MASSON. Suzanne Masson, militante et résistante , accessed November 14, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Masson, Suzanne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | La Courneuve |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 1, 1943 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |