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Jean Catelas
Jean Joseph Catelas (6 May 1894 – 24 September 1941) was a French communist politician who was a deputy for the Somme from 1936 to 1940. He was arrested by the Vichy government during World War II (1939–1945), sentenced to death for his underground activities and executed. Early years Jean Joseph Catelas was born on 6 May 1894 in Puisieux, Pas-de-Calais, the seventh of nine children in a poor family. He obtained his school certificate when he was aged 12, and became a worker in hosiery, working in this occupation until 1914. With the outbreak of World War I (1914–18) he was assigned to the infantry. Catalas spent most of the war at the front, and took part in the Battle of Verdun. He earned several citations and the Military Medal. He took part in the great strike of 1920. After being demobilized Catelas joined the French Northern Railway (''Compagnie des chemins de fer du Nord'') as a brakeman. He joined the French Communist Party (''Parti communiste français'', PCF) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puisieux, Pas-de-Calais
Puisieux () or Puisieux-au-Mont is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France. Geography Puisieux is situated south of Arras, at the junction of the D919, D27 and D6 roads. Population Places of interest * The church of St. Denis, rebuilt, as was the rest of the village, after the First World War. * The Commonwealth War Graves Commission The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations m ... cemeteries (including Queens Cemetery). * A war memorial. See also * Communes of the Pas-de-Calais department References External links Serre Road CWGC cemetery No. 3Serre Road CWGC cemetery No. 2Serre Road CWGC cemetery No. 1The Queens CWGC cemeteryThe CWGC communal cemetery Communes of Pas-de-Calais {{Arras-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Politzer
Georges Politzer (; 3 May 190323 May 1942) was a French philosopher and Marxist theoretician of Hungarian Jewish origin, affectionately referred to by some as the "red-headed philosopher" (''philosophe roux''). He was a native of Oradea, a city in present-day Romania (then Nagyvárad, Hungary). He was murdered in the Holocaust. Biography Politzer was already a militant by the time of his involvement in the Hungarian insurrection of 1919 at age seventeen during the Hungarian Soviet Republic led by Béla Kun. He went into exile during the White Terror that preceded the establishment of a right-wing government under the regency of Admiral Miklós Horthy. After meeting Freud and Sándor Ferenczi in Vienna, he settled in Paris in 1921. He joined the French Communist Party between 1929 and 1931. At the beginning of the 1930s, the Communist Party founded the Workers University of Paris (''l'Université Ouvrière de Paris'') which lasted until dissolution by German occupat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |