BIOGRAPHICAL DATA ON ALBANIAN PERSONALITIES

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FORM NO. 4
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jg MxU UK OTIAL
glint) Hoxh% was born in 1921. When she was 16
years old sbe took part in the clandestine work organized by the Co niat
Party against Zogts regira. With the occupation of Albania by Fascist
Italy she became active in anti ciet demonstrations. She was chiefly
responsible for turning the Instituti Feeanor ?:e 77 t e Institut 7 at
Tirsaa into a center of reesiar a ce. a one of the ftrot itant
personalities of the reetetanee.
Attar she finished her secondary studies she worked as a teacher,
but only for four nenthe, as she was sought by the carabbAorl, and in 1942
she vas forced to go underground. Upon the for sti+ n or W"'' ' st Party
she became a member and also a member of the Central C. tree of C st
Youth. Rer revolutionary activities took her to Tirana as a a edmr of the
e of the Cow set Party. She took part in the first assembly
tarty at t~aabiraot. During her work at Tirana she *140 engaged in several
tivities? but she paid particular attention to the orgazation and education
at the w6 eu e d girls. In 1942 she took part in the Conference of Labinot,
where she -aaaas elected a member of the National Council of Liberation. During
her work in Tirs2aa she man discovered by the eneWs but elm did not fall into
their hands, She was sentenced to 12 years in prison by the occupation court.
Naavertheless, she did not leave Tirana, but remained at the work assigned to
her by the C artist Party.
ft ward the end of March 1944 she left Tirana and was assigned by the
t atraal C+aa ittee of Ceaammunist Youth to the Vlore?aGjino er zone, and
later on she was sent to the 2d Division and the youth organizations in
Central Albani.aa, She took: part in.the Congress of Permet and later in the
first congress of the Youth, where .she was *looted a tan mber of the Secretariat
of the ale Youth Council.
On 4 November 1944 she beo a e ber of the founding committee of
the first Cs of Woman and was el nted a =artier of the Secretariat of the
General Coun 1. Later In 1946, at the Second Congress, she vas elected
president of the manes organisation, an office she still holds. She is
y?e ,?president of the Association for Cultural Relations bed Albania
and the USSR and a mouber of the General Council of the International
F` ratiorn of Des vraatic Vann. After the liberation of Alban nts, she was
*looted a aver of the executive ommittcee of the Democratic Front, On
7 March 1940 she was elected a representative to the People's Convrention*
taring the First congress of the Albanian Labor Party Jr**** the
. 4"r -VM1"4,.i: p tv? she was elected a member of the Ce ral Committee
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CONFIDE' TI
r 1918 in the tam of Gjate, in
ooi :plet.d his elementary ztudieo at his
zaativo taw. ' 11 years old, for financial reaasonss, he left Albania
and wont to Athens to join his father, who had emIZ;ra d t ere several years
before. He took his secondary studies in recce, and ai'ter great difficulty
was able to conclude them in 1937. Eb worked in Greece for two years. In
1939 he registered in the Faculty of Physics and ihathernsttcs of Athens
University, but in 1940, because of his family's critical fia nice situation,
re td to Aim. Is rch 1941 he entered the Paoulty of gxtgineoring
of t1ea+ U . of Pevwx but an die 1941# after the Iasi attack against
the Soviet Upton, t4; tlaer with maq other comrades he r+etuzi ed to Albania*
In i h 1942 he was appointed professor at Vie, ` rcia . Institute of Val=&*
At Valera d ocutizsosalhy for the ryas intan%se e t F cif,
Upon the formation of the Albanian Ca nist Party in L941 be became
a namber, of it, For his work durin 1942??190 he was made Political Secretary
of the city of V lona, and at the seams time was elected a member of the A,ntii
Faasoiat Council of that area, Toward the latter part of 1943 he baos= a
womber of the regional clonuittee of the fw st Pte, Lj order of the
reg a sal, oomrAttee of the Co=mist Party he was sent into the aray in December
1945# as atber of the political section of the lot Brigade, later on he
beeam mating commissar of the lit Brigade, and referent of the political
section of the 'lot Diviiio3 . and a t,.. r the libersa1:ion ' ecaaan;e C atissar of the
Division with the rank of lioute a t olon el,
45 he was diechar saed by the Army and was appointe
Its April 1947 he was oreedited a a
of Albania to the USSR# an office
the Co saniet Party)j
jaraxian 7311 was born on 22 April 1917 in the town of
Skropar district of a weea ltby peasant family, s family
in the movemeat of 1924 and was noted for its demorcitic
father was interned by by Zaag#a regime. YU1 finished his, e
studies at T rat, sad his seconxhary studies at the Normal School of
in 193$. He appointed a school teacher for one year, theen went to emcee
for higher stizAlos. Iftile still in Albania, in 1934 he bogan to study the
er s of Karl Marx by. hisiself, and began to hate Zoges reg . During the
he a # in France he was noted for his are -lution xry activities, Na
"
) and wrote articles for it. am
blish the z apapw The P. le a11i.
f~
hood socist ton of Lyon together with cowitdo
?r of the Broth
and took an active part in the Fr+enah labor movement. In
of the list Party of Freme.,
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CONF1DFN :,
When he returned to Albania he was appointed to several teaching
positions. When Albania was occupied by Italy he was in Berat and took
part in the anti4aecist dcin nstratione. Later on, he became known for
his Comvnist organization work in the district of t erat and for re-
cruiting for armed resistance. fie served in the district of Brat as
acting commissar. In February 191;3 he took part in the conference of
the Communist Party for the district of Bern t, where he was elected
secretary of the regional committee of B3eret* he was also elected
secretary of the Council of National. Liberation of this district.
Zareman 1111 took part in the first conference in Albania of the
Albanian C nist i`arty, held in Labinot. Bemuse of his activity he
held several responsible positions in the Ariy, serving as acting com-
missar of the Staff of Lserat District and later as commissar of the 14th
Brigade. After the liberation of Albania, he told such positions as director
of personnel in the Ministry of Finance and in the office of the Prime
*We,
ctrw and later was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary of Albania tU
l rane9, an office which he still holds.
He %se a member of the Albanian delegation to the UN and repr :sent-
ativ, of the Albanian Government to the International Court at The *ague
for the Corfu Channel case. For his work, the First Congress of the
Albanian Labor 'ary elected ciao a member of the Central Committee.
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Abedin $hehu was born in Pica, in the Lume, district to January
1918. He studied at the Lycee in Qhkoder, from which he graduated in
1939. He completed his secondary education with great dif lculty because
of his poor financial situation.
His revolutionary activities began in his classrooms in 1938,
when he joined several romps. In 1940 he became a ,der of the Youth
group. In 1942 he a member of the Co ni,st Party. In
June 1942 he went underground and became a Partisan.
ginning of 1943 he became squad commander of the guerrilla
company of Cermunike and. in March of the same year he was sent by the
Co n ist Ply to Lu to organize and mobilize the people of that
section for war. He was the organizer of the Lume, coepar and of the
CommmAst activity in that district.
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Cztral Committee of the Party.
After the liberation of '3.b&nia in 1944, he was appointed
tar,y of the regional coi* ttee of K ees, an office which he h ld
till 1946. After this he was transferred to Tir as director of
caml at the Prim .t try. In June of Ui, save
of 1%4 becam ai
he Lume
Saar of the bat-
wt. where again h
:mauve city,,
of secondary
of Albania by Italy, Teodor Heba took pert
of Shkodor, in WUh he worked till the forition
Ile Works, ,aster director of pec
tax;/ An the Fo.
Durres,, and
he wras appointed
er of Public Forks, an office iiiduo b he etiU
r 1945 he was elected a People's beput; to the motional
he First Cow ,,revs of the Albanian or Party he ,s
arty. In 1941 he became a n u* er of the
r he
f the ;24U.
of Labinotc, at wh ch he was elected
'%c c l,, and in t aie capacity he
in the post and telegraphic strike
,as released after 24 ho {.re. Yor his anti-
5d in :e 1942 and imprisoned for one year.
,40s,, he escaped from Jail and fled to
n he was sentenced in absentia to 1,41 years of prison,
u 1914, of a
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the UI
nd later became president a
he still. retains. fie
tL 19MG
1y. be finished his eleme to
born in 1912 in Pelican in the
a graduate of the Univs
in political and ecursoaric so
eeived the Doctor of laws degree frun the University o
He seated as acting prosecutor in the city of rce.
ile he was a student in France he kept in cost with the 1-
theta wbo were organic the resistance, against 4o&. 1 joined the National. Liberstio a remrit at its beginning and joined the Go=zmi3t
Party In July of lam. Later 1A was interned b3? the iaaciete at Porto
Romano. With the capitulation of Italy he was freed and returned to Al-
basia where he continued 1-is activity for the bati l Liberation d -
sent in lore. At the Fer st Congreee he was elected a mbar of the
General Chi, ? and was assigned judicial functions in the Anti-4ascist
tt.e of titer. Liberation. At ?erat in 1%41+ he was made Minister
of Justice in the first domcx+atie -en aent, an office that he still
holds. During the election of 2 December 1945 be was elected deputy from
G aeter to the pules Convention, and sirx e then he has been a member
of the Prosidium of the Conveentiono
a an of broad culture. Today he is kreside nt of the .3 st: tute
in the first cons of the Albar
of the Central Committee of that Party.
Plif3 MUM
c w born in Rome in r of a middle-class city
fem. He himelef was an iron worker. 5s e et ntary studies were
a native city. he was one of the first revolutionari4s of
the district of i orce. took part in be: unict group of i orce
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Be worsted in the Korce gaup tJW %%U.: At
ollaborated with der Hza
he .-vaisL saauvoaecrnt in Albania
of the raaainiet Party of L1 nia.
id later s sewnt by the C"t
varicua miaasionaa Gape l,y to organize
et of Val and later in the rce district.
t to the district of Fogradec, where# together
with other co a.des he tomid the a crz r and was appointed comIssar
of this coopuW, In 1943 he took p in the first conference of the
LL
In ovesaaber 1943 he bec-ame a riser of the
ict of Lorce,, ar4 in Dftawber of that year was appointed
of the 2nd 4atta:lion of the 4th Bri. c . In arch 194
was appointed oamaaaa i,a:aaa`r of Cie Jove district,, an office he held till the
liberation of AI,batria.
1945 he was discharged fr n the any and ac c cted vi,
ve Cieittee of the district of oree and chief of
a he was put in -rge of the +'ublic fvrke
h officer the district of orce.
Be waaan elected a saaraber of the central, Gomaittee of the Labor Party. AINmian
LUIUT -ZW
was borti at 1rse ko,, lonje,, in 1920 of a middle peasant
fanly-. He finished elez seta ey achook in his native to= and went to the
%dwA cal 3cho4 In Kos, where 'I m finished five grades. He left schook in
revolutionary activities. He organized arced reai.stanoe
of &olo, a, and bocarne the first co=wonder of the fireat unit
in that area. lie became a ca st is uth wbf a the Albanian
t i.on was formed. In epte r 1943 he became a
beer he took part in the kurtisan company of 4 olonje. S
e 1942, he has bold several respon ible positions in the nn y.
a coin y commander from the b -%Iiu) ing,, 1942 and later when thl
battalion he was made the commander of the von, e" 1*ttaliouq
became Deputy 'o a r of the fourth brigade, later its Co er.
this he bac,ar division comsua3oa with the rank of haute ax colonel,, which
be till holds.
After the liberation of mania he was sent to the oviet Union for
Military etudiesi He succe efull y completed his studies at the Frunze deiq
The Fiat C s of the 4Llbanian Labor Party elected him a member of Ito
oral Canxnitteo.
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rn in 193.2 in the t of 8a1,ax ,. in the fiape1oa
at family* He s a laborer and held various j
ant cw.,dtorde and chau~f"f
tivltica bed Mn 1935. when k
's r,;: ee:. Aar a r ur at the Communist group
i various activitica, and upon the for-
he beca a or of it and for
60 1
T thOr with his comradea he angaged in wide activities in
of T; ra, Januaanr 1962 ho wa4i arrested.
Panty 0=4=i ee for prison, and together wi
a prime brrr . ter the j break he fled to Jo
or this he was sentenced in a xntia to 25 years in prison.
4 three tip. lie served as cote 4 c s r, o
neg.. In 1947 he was
nrtation in
the Altanien Labor party elected him a
of that ?'atty.
13 born, in Sbk lez in tober 1925 of a r eity Li a .
d his aewrAsa7 studies; at the Lycee at '.'ira a,.
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=munist Youth in the L ncee. In t 19h2 he was arrested by
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laeaeaist Police and was kept under arrest for nine da4s? but, saa tied because
of hia youth. :Ln april 194.3 h e bea member of the Wbanian 4ist
Party. After leaying school he w; Ow t, by the any to Use egf ar
of tb,) Coo=uni3t Youth of l3ent, where ae a zea er and later as organizational
1944, v&en the V1I Brigade was foz ed, the Party mde bin a tub er of the
this brigade. In the '`fit Gongreos of +a t Youth
was elected a )er OX the secretariat of the "LzO (Anti-
-lba n Youth) and a ndidat .ten to memberi of 1
--o i,st nth. In must
ion of the 2nd Divisl*n, bitb the liberatI;m
he .arty trade Political co .asar of the 5th idv:t ion with
ute It colonel. In this division he o aht for the liberation
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people i rt Kosovo, gieet -., and the :sand,; ak. 1 t this
Youth in April 194 he was elected a der of the were-
d a Aae r of testa Central Comittee of . h nian C Est
;anaxV 1946 he was appointed or tzation . aecretaz of the
Central/ Oft"tte, of Albania Communist Youth and at th u third Youth Cangre,ae
was elected & *moral soc:r ry of the Peo xle's tauth of Albar , in this
"parAt he coati d till February 1940. It this time he was t rar-sferred
to the Office of Propaganda ane Agitation of tbz Central Conn tte e of the
mist Party*
so of the gib, csian labor F arty eleatGd him a niaiber
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