Lise London, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lise London

politician from France

Date of Birth: 15-Feb-1916

Place of Birth: Montceau-les-Mines, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 31-Mar-2012

Profession: writer, politician, French Resistance fighter

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Lise London

  • Lise London (15 February 1916 – 31 March 2012) was a French Communist politician and activist.
  • She participated in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War and the French Resistance during World War II.
  • She was the widow of Artur London, a Czechoslovak communist politician and co-defendant in the SlánskĂ˝ Trial.
  • Following her husband's show trial and imprisonment, she became a strong critic of Stalin and Stalinism.London was born Élizabeth Ricol in Montceau-les-Mines, France, in 1916 to parents from Spain.
  • She became a member of the French Communist Party as a teenager.
  • She moved to Moscow in the Soviet Union, where she first met and then married her husband, Artur London.
  • The couple moved to Spain and joined the International Brigades at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
  • In a 2011 interview with El Pais, London described her involvement with the International Brigade as the "best moment" of her life, saying, "The Spanish people are always in my memories.
  • I am constantly reminded of the Brigades, of my old friends; I dream about them.
  • Spain was an ideal, our most beloved ideal, and it continues to be a valid ideal."Lise and Artur moved to Paris in 1939 following the end of Spanish Civil War and the establishment of Francoist Spain.
  • Nazi Germany soon invaded and occupied France in 1940.
  • Both joined the French Resistance.
  • In 1942, London was arrested and sent to RavensbrĂĽck concentration camp, where she was held prisoner for the remainder of the war.
  • In 1944 she was held with Louise Aslanian, with whom she became friends. Lise London moved to Czechoslovakia with her husband after World War II.
  • Artur London joined the new Communist Czechoslovakian government as a deputy foreign minister.
  • However, her husband fell out with authorities and Stalin, and was sentenced to life in prison during the SlánskĂ˝ trial in 1952.
  • He was released in 1956 after Stalin's death and the couple returned to Paris.
  • Artur London would later publish a play about his trial, The Confession, which was published in 1968.
  • Artur London died in 1986.
  • Lise London became a writer and author, especially focused on the experiences of her husband during the 1950s.
  • Her books include "MĂ©gère de la rue Daguerre", published in 1995. In a 2011 interview with El Pais, London revealed that she had "tore up my membership card" and left the French Communist Party, though she remained a supporter of communism.Lise London died on 31 March 2012 in Paris at the age of 96.

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