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About Leif O. Foss
- Leif Olav Foss (28 August 1899 – 1982) was a Norwegian trade unionist and politician for the Communist Party. He spent his early working career at sea, and from 1919 as a docks worker at Akers Mekaniske Verksted.
- He was organized, first through the Norsk matros- og fyrbøterunion, then through the Union of Iron and Metalworkers, chairing the sub-union Dokkarbeidernes forening from 1922 to 1925.
- He was a supervisory council member in Oslo faglige samorg from 1923 to 1930, and a national board member of the Union of Iron and Metalworkers from 1925 to 1929.He joined the Norwegian Labour Party in 1920, and then the Communist Party.
- He became party secretary for trade affairs, and was a delegate at the Red International of Labour Unions Congress in 1930.
- Here he was elected to the RILU executive committee, and moved to Moscow.
- He returned to Norway after a few years.During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he was arrested two times for resistance.
- The first time he was imprisoned in Møllergata 19 from 15 August to 2 September 1940.
- On 12 September 1941 he was arrested for the second time, after the milk strike.
- He was incarcerated in Grini concentration camp until 3 April 1942, when he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp.
- He was sent further to many camps, first Lichterfelde, then Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel, Neuengamme, Hamburg-Fühlsbuttel again, Königswartha, Bautzen, Leipzig and Eisenach.
- He was freed at the war's end.
- After the war, from 1945 to 1949 he was the secretary in the Union of Iron and Metalworkers.
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