Golda Bancic ^People

She joined the labor movement, taking part in a strike during which she was arrested and allegedly beaten. Bancic, who became a member of the outlawed Romanian Communist Party (PCR), was subsequently arrested several times. In 1936, she traveled to France, where she aided local left-wing activists in transpor-ting weapons to Spanish Republican forces fighting in the Civil War. Shortly be- fore the outbreak of World War II, Bancic gave birth to Dolores, her daughter with Alexandru Jar, named after Dolores Ibárruri (la Pasionaria). She left Dolores in thecare of a French family following the start of the German occupation, and joined the Paris-based Francs-tireurs et partisans- main-d'ouvre immigrée (FTP-MOI), tak- ing part in about 100 sabotage acts against the Wehrmacht (Armed forces of Nazi Germany), and being personally involved in the manufacture and transport of ex- plosives. This came at a time when the P C , weakened by successive crackdowns, had become divided into several autonomous groups. Similar to Gheorghe GastonMarin, Bancic was among the Romanian activists who were integrated into the FrenchCommunist Party. Arrested by the Gestapo on 6 November 1943, she was subject to torture, but refused to give information about her comrades. After the arrest of the Manouchian Group, the Gestapo published a series of propaganda posters, named l'Affiche Rouge, which depicted its members, Bancic included, as terrorists