Henry Wilhelm Kristiansen

Henry Wilhelm Kristiansen ( born February 12, 1902 in North beach at Drammen, † January 16, 1942 in the Neuengamme concentration camp ) was a personality of the Norwegian Labour and resistance movement.

Life

Youth officer and editor for various newspapers

1916 Kristiansen member of the Norwegian Labour Party ( DnA; Det norske Arbeiderparti ) and the Social Democratic Youth League ( NSU; Norges Socialdemokratiske Ungdomsforbund ). From 1919 to 1921 he was Chairman of NSU in Bratsberg, 1922-1923 Chairman of the Communist Youth League ( NKU; Norges Kommunistiske Ungdomsforbund ) in Vestfold. In November 1923 he became a member of the Communist Party of Norway ( NKP; Norges Kommunistiske Parti ).

From 1924 to 1926 he was editor of the NKU newspaper class Kampen, and from 1926 to 1929 editorial secretary of the NKP- newspaper Norges Komunistblad and 1927-1929 also editor of the party theoretical journal Proletaren. From 1929 to 1931, Kristiansen held on in the Soviet Union.

At the top of the NKP

Kristiansen 1931 returned back to Norway and was from 1931 to 1934 Chairman of the NKP. In 1934 he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of the NKP and was from 1934 to 1940 editor of the NKP- central organ Arbeideren.

In resistance

After the invasion of Norway by German troops in April 1940 Kristiansen was one of the organizers of the resistance movement. In August 1940 he was arrested for the first time, but left a month later again. On the morning of the German attack on the Soviet Union (June 22, 1941) he was arrested along with his Russian-born wife Miriam by the Gestapo. In November 1941 the couple Kristiansen was transferred to Hamburg. After living in various German prisons Kristiansen died on January 16, 1942 in the Neuengamme concentration camp.

Miriam Kristiansen

Miriam ( " Mira " ) Kristiansen (born Mirijam Iljinischna Town Hall; born February 26, 1899 in Orsha, † May 16, 1942 in Auschwitz ) was born into a Jewish family. An begun studying medicine she broke off after the outbreak of the First World War and went to the front as a nurse. During the October Revolution, she worked as a nurse for the Red Army in Moscow. Later she studied philology, completed a library education in Leningrad and was for a time as a teacher at an orphanage in South Russia operates. In 1921 she married in Moscow the Norwegian editor and Communists Arvid G. Hansen ( 1894-1966 ) and went with him to Norway. In 1928 the marriage was dissolved and she married Henry Wilhelm Kristiansen. In Norway, Miriam Kristiansen committed for the Nansen help and worked until her arrest on 22 June 1941 as a secretary at the Soviet embassy in Oslo. She was detained in the women's concentration camp Ravensbrück and was assassinated on 16 May 1942 in the gas chamber of Auschwitz.