Henri Krasucki

Henri Krasucki ( born September 2, 1924 in Wolomin, Poland, † 24 January 2003 in Paris) was a French resistance fighter and a leading union official.

Life

Krasucki was born as the son of a textile worker. Just two years later, in 1926, his parents were forced as active Communists and Jews to escape the authoritarian regime of Marshal Pilsudski to France.

Since his childhood, the young Henri lived in a Jewish- Communist -speaking environment. Isaac was in Paris one of the leaders of the Union of Jewish immigrant garment workers.

Henri attended the Lycée Voltaire known where he stood out by best academic performance. In 1939 he had to stop for financial reasons to visit the school. Henri Krasucki was very young politically active. He was first a member of the communist youth. One of his companions was Pierre Georges, who would become famous as Colonel Fabien in the armed struggle in 1941.

After the Nazi invasion of the 16 -year-old Henri Krasucki was entrusted with the management of illegal Jewish Communist youth groups, first in his neighborhood and then throughout the 20th arrondissement. In the summer of 1942 Henri Krasucki took over the management of the Parisian youth organizations of the Jewish section and performed with his group of armed resistance against the German occupation. His brother died in an attack on German soldiers lost their lives.

On January 20, 1943 Krasuckis father was arrested by the French police and interned in Drancy. On February 9, 1943, he was deported to Birkenau and gassed upon arrival along with 816 others from the transportation of thousands of men, women and children.

On March 23, 1943 Henri Krasucki fell into the hands of the Gestapo and he was deported to brutal interrogations fruitless as his family to Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

After his liberation from the Buchenwald concentration camp Henri Krasucki returned to Paris and worked as a metal worker, among others, the automotive company Renault. At the same time he organized the communist party youth in the Paris working-class district in which he had grown up. From 1949 he was a full-time official of the trade union CGT ( Confédération générale du travail ). 1956 Krasucki became a member of the Central Committee of the PCF ( Parti Communiste Français) and since 1961 he was a member of the board of the CGT. In 1964 he came to the Politburo of the Communist Party. Here he has in 1981 voted against the admission of the Communist Party in the government of Mitterrand.

Within the CGT Krasucki took over more and more responsibility, and he was finally of 1982-1992 Secretary General of the CGT.

Krasucki remained until 1996, member of the Politburo of the PCF. He died in 2003 and was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, near the wall, where the Communards of Paris Commune were shot in 1871. Was on 23 June 2005, near his apartment in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, a street named after Henri Krasucki.