Former resistance fighter and communist activist, Georges Cukierman died at the age of 94, his family said on Saturday. An announcement made by her granddaughter Cécile Cukierman, senator from the Loire and national spokesperson for the French Communist Party.
The PCF national secretary Fabien Roussel paid tribute in a press release to "a tireless fighter of the passing of memory", by recalling that he had "joined the underground Communist Youth on May 1, 1942 and participated with it in the Resistance until Liberation ”.
Georges Cukierman was a founding member and president of the “Committee for the Memory of Children Deported Because They Are Born Jews”, created in 2001 by his wife Raymonde-Rebecca. Since the late 1970s, they had increased meetings with young schoolchildren, particularly in Val-de-Marne, to transmit the memory of deported children.
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