{"id":17180,"date":"2024-06-17T10:14:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T08:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/cristina-boico\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T14:42:05","slug":"cristina-boico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.museemrjmoi.com\/en\/cristina-boico\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristina Bo\u00efco"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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   Cristina Bo\u00efco, a Romanian Jew, was born on August 8, 1916, in Botosani. At a very young age, she joined the underground Communist Youth movement. A biology student in Bucharest, she moved to France in 1938 to further her education. In Paris, she moved in progressive scientific circles and was active in the fight against fascism. <\/p>


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   In 1941, she joined the Organisation Sp\u00e9ciale (OS) created by the Communists and became involved in the armed struggle within the M.O.I. She joined the FTP-M.O.I. when it was founded in 1942, as part of the Romanian group. Close to military leader Boris Holban, whom she had met in Bucharest, she took charge of the FTP-M.O.I. Paris intelligence service. In 1943, she planned and organized, among other things, the successful assassination attempt against Ritter, the Nazi leader of the STO. <\/p>


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Cristina Bo\u00efco escaped the wave of arrests that decimated the FTP-M.O.I. and continued her fight as a combatant until the end of the war.<\/p>


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   After the Liberation, she returned to Romania, where she held various positions.<\/p>\n

A victim of the Ceausescu regime\u2019s \u201cpurges,\u201d she left her country in 1987 and settled in France. She died on April 16, 2002, in Paris. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2014 Bo\u00efco Cristina, 1994, \u201cWith the Parisian FTP\u201d<\/em> in *Regards sur la m\u00e9moire*<\/em>, personal account. ANACR of the 18th arrondissement of Paris. <\/p>

\u2014 St\u00e9phane Courtois, Denis Peschanski, Adam Rayski, 1989, *Le Sang de l\u2019\u00e9tranger*<\/em>, Paris, Fayard. <\/p>

\u2014 Photo: private collection (DR) <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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