Artur London (1915 with Ostrava † November 7th 1986 with Paris). Entered at 14 years with Communist youths, old international Brigades in Spain, resistant in France since 1940. It is off-set in Mauthausen in 1942.

In 1949 it is named vice-minister of the Foreign affairs of Czechoslovakia. It is stopped in 1951. He one of the fourteen will be shown Procès of Prague in 1952, in which one will tear off consents of “conspiracy against the State” which will appear later manufactured. Eleven death sentences by hanging, three with perpetuity, of which Artur London. Artur London will be rehabilitated in 1956. In 1963, London leaves Czechoslovakia and settles in France; it publishes Spain there… , dedicated work with the Civil war, which are for him a way of rehabilitating old International Brigades imprisoned or carried out at the time of the Procès of Prague, Budapest and Sofia, and in 1968, it publish the Consent whose Costa Gavras will carry out the film same name in 1970.

Its wife: Lise London born (Dye stick Ricol) is the sister-in-law of the leader of PCF Raymond Guyot.

External bonds

• the site of the political deportees

• a discussion with Dye stick London