Irene Wosikowski, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Irene Wosikowski

Date of Birth: 09-Feb-1910

Place of Birth: Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 27-Oct-1944

Profession: politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Irene Wosikowski (9 February 1910 - 27 October 1944) was a German political activist (KPD).
After 1933 she continued with her (now illegal) political activity in Germany till 1935.
The next two years were spent in Moscow after which, as instructed by the party, she moved to Paris which had become one of two de facto capitals for the exiled German Communist Party.
She worked on political education and publishing till 1940 when she was placed in the Gurs internment camp.
After her escape she joined the Résistance.
Living "underground" (unregistered) she managed to remain at liberty till July 1943, despite the intensely dangerous nature of much of her resistance work, which included approaching German soldiers and engaging in "political" discussions to try and persuade them to face up to the accelerating savagery of the Shoah.
Following her arrest Wosikowski was subjected to a sustained programme of torture and taken back to Germany where she was executed at Plötzensee on the edge of Berlin.