Some notable events around anarchism that happened in 1942.
March[]
- 7: 91-year old Lucy Parson dies in a house fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The FBI seizes most of her books. 300 people attended her funeral held 5 days later.[1]
June[]
- 8: Anarchist Jose Pellicer Gandia is executed in Paterna, Spain by the Francoist government. He was 30 years old.[2]
August[]
- 8: María Pérez Lacruz is executed by Francoist Spain in Paterna at age 25.[3]
- Unknown date: Sascha Shapiro is murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland. He was at least 52 years old.[4]
December[]
- 22: Gerhard Wartenberg dies in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Nazi Germany. The Gestapo claimed he died from illness.[5]
Unknown month[]
- The “Green Guard” anarchist militia is started by Osip Tsebriy in Ukraine as part of an effort to re-establish the Makhnovist movement in World War II. The group engages in combat against both Nazi Germany, far-right Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviet Union.[6]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Parsons
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Pellicer_Gand%C3%ADa
- ↑ https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_la_Jabalina
- ↑ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacha_Schapiro
- ↑ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Wartenberg
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Guard