Père-Lachaise in Paris in Département de Paris, Île-de-France, France — Western Europe
Communist Women’s Memorial
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
1. Communist Women’s Memorial Marker
aux Femmes
Communistes
qui ont donne
leur Vie
pour la Victoire
de la Liberte
contre le Nazisme
pour le triomphe
de la Paix
In honor of the Communist Women who gave their lives for the Victory of Liberty in the struggle against Nazism for the triumph of Peace.
Erected 1975.
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World II • Women. In addition, it is included in the The Holocaust series list.
Location. 48° 51.59′ N, 2° 23.984′ E. Memorial is in Paris, Île-de-France, in Département de Paris. It is in Père-Lachaise. It is on Avenue Circulaire, on the left when traveling north. The memorial is located in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Section 97. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Paris, Île-de-France 75020, France. Touch for directions.
Regionally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, Europe, the European Union, Atlantic Europe, the Schengen Area, Western Europe, a coastal Mediterranean country, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a French colony and also the Roman Empire.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Ravensbruck Concentration Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Maurice Audin (within shouting distance of this marker); Nous sommes 900 Français / We are 900 Frenchmen (Convoy 73) Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Buchenwald-Dora Concentration Camp Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp Memorial (within shouting distance
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1. Anti-communist mass killings.
Excerpt - Germany: German communists, socialists and trade unionists were among the earliest domestic opponents of Nazism and they were also among the first to be sent to concentration camps. Adolf Hitler claimed that communism was a Jewish ideology which the Nazi Party called "Judeo-Bolshevism". Fear of communist agitation was used to justify the Enabling Act of 1933, the law which gave Hitler plenary powers. Hermann Göring later testified at the Nuremberg Trials that the Nazis' willingness to repress German communists prompted President Paul von Hindenburg and the German elite to cooperate with the Nazis. The first concentration camp was built at Dachau in March 1933 and its original purpose was to imprison German communists, socialists, trade unionists and others who opposed the Nazis. Communists, social democrats and other political prisoners were forced to wear red triangles.(Submitted on May 5, 2024.)
Whenever the Nazis conquered a new piece of territory, members ofcommunist, socialist and anarchist groups were normally the first persons to be immediately detained or executed. On the Eastern Front, this practice was in keeping with Hitler's Commissar Order in which he ordered the summary execution of all political commissars who were captured among Soviet soldiers as well as the execution of all Communist Party members in German held territory. The Einsatzgruppen carried out these executions in the east.Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 20242. Communist Women’s Memorial - wide viewAn inscription on the base notes that the memorial was dedicated on May 8, 1975, on the the 30th anniversary of the victory over Nazism, as well as that year also being the International Year of Women.
2. Nazism’s Political Victims Should Never Be Forgotten (Jacobin, Jan. 27, 2022).
Excerpt: A historical consensus on this point may be a long time coming. But dispersed evidence on the subject already suggests that the overall losses of Communists and Socialists throughout Europe, may be second only to the number of Jewish victims in sheer numbers. While political groups do not fall under the genocide statute adopted by the United Nations after the war, those inspired by Marxism certainly were a hunted and endangered minority.(Submitted on May 5, 2024.)
3. Political Prisoners (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). (Submitted on May 5, 2024.)
Additional keywords. Holocaust
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, April 19, 2024
3. Communist Women’s Memorial - wider view
Credits. This page was last revised on May 5, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 5, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 120 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on May 5, 2024, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
