Marcel Langer

Marcel Langer was born in 1903 in Auschwitz, Poland. After passing his first years in Tarnow, he emigrated to Palestine where he worked on the railroad in Haifa as a mechanic fitter. He joined the PKP (Palestine Communist Party) and was expelled by the British authorities. In 1929, he settled in Toulouse (France) where he continued his political activities. In Spain he married a Spanish woman and had a daughter, but was forced to leave them behind after the withdrawal of the International Brigades and he would not see them again. In Toulouse he joined the Resistance and was the founder of the first Jewish group of F.T.P. A very well known and liked leader, he was detained in February, 1943, condemned to death by a French court, and guillotined in July, 1943.

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