Cristina Luca Boico | |
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Born | Bianca Marcusohn 8 August 1916 Botoșani, Romania |
Died | 16 April 2002 Paris, France | (aged 85)
Nationality | Romanian |
Other names | Cristina Luca, Cristina Boico |
Occupation | communist activist |
Cristina Luca Boico (8 August 1916 – 16 April 2002) was a Romanian communist activist. After going into exile in France, she joined the French Resistance and worked in the intelligence service. At the end of the war, she returned to Romania and worked as the director of the Ministry of Education and numerous other governmental posts, until she was purged in 1952. Working as an editor for the Scientific Publishing House she later taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest. In 1987, she left Romania to visit her children in Paris, refusing to return. For the remainder of her life, she gave lectures and published memoirs about the evolution of communism.