Misto Mame is an
Albanian World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
People's Hero. He was killed in action against
Fascist Italian forces on 16 August 1942.
Mame was born in 1921 in
Erind
Erind is a village in the Gjirokastër County, southern Albania. It belongs to the former Lunxhëri municipality and is part of the wider Lunxhëri region. At the 2015 local government reform it became part of the municipality Gjirokastër.
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Gjirokastër
Gjirokastër (, sq-definite, Gjirokastra) is a city in the Republic of Albania and the seat of Gjirokastër County and Gjirokastër Municipality. It is located in a valley between the Gjerë mountains and the Drino, at 300 metres above sea le ...
. He was an active participant in the antifascist demonstration and member of the Committee of Tirana of the
Party of Labour of Albania
The Party of Labour of Albania ( sq, Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë, PPSh), sometimes referred to as the Albanian Workers' Party (AWP), was the ruling and sole legal party of Albania during the communist period (1945–1991). It was founded o ...
, then Communist Party of Albania ( sq, Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë). He also was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth. He was the commander of one of the communist antifascist guerrilla cells in Tiranë.
He was involved in a series of guerrilla actions, such as that of burning a military weapon repository of Fascist Italy in Tirana, Albania. The fire lasted for 48 hours and damages of 5M Albanian francs were reported. Mame died, at 21, in one of Tiranë's neighborhoods, which still bears his name, while fiercely fighting, although outnumbered by Italian fascist soldiers.
One of the biggest woodworking plants in Albania, founded in the 1950s bears his name.
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References
Sources
*Vaso Boshnjaku
Misto Mame
N. Frashëri (1962), (Albanian)
1921 births
1942 deaths
Albanian communists
People from Gjirokastër
Albanian resistance members
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