Pierre Georges
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Pierre Georges, better known as Colonel Fabien, was one of the two members of the French Communist Party who perpetrated the first assassinations of German personnel during the Nazi Occupation of Fran
Pierre Georges, Colonel Fabien
Commemorative plaque at 34 rue Gandon, 13th arrondissement de Paris, marking the command post of Colonel Fabien until the Liberation of Paris
Samuel Tyszelman
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Samuel Tyszelman was a Jewish Polish communist who was a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He and another man were arrested and executed for taking part in an anti-German demonstrat
Pierre Georges
…weapons training and increase sabotage and attacks on occupation troops. There was some resistance to this approach, but with news of the execution of Samuel Tyszelman and Henri Gautherot it was agreed to take a more active role. Of the JC leaders, Georges became primarily involved in military operations in the Paris…
Poster announcing that Tyszelman and Gautherot had been executed
Tyszelman's tomb