Maurício Grabois

Maurício Grabois (2 October 1912 – 25 December 1973) was a Brazilian politician, founder of the modern Communist Party of Brazil and one of its leaders until his death in 1973.

Biography Maurício Grabois was born into a Jewish family in Salvador, Bahia, a city on the northeast coast of Brazil. His parents were Agustin and Dora Grabois. He graduated from the State Gymnasium of Salvador, an elementary school in his city. At the age of 19 he moved to Rio de Janeiro to study at the Military School of Realengo (which would later become the Academia Militar de Agulhas Negras) . There he became a Marxist-Leninist and spread communism in the military college.

Activism In Rio de Janeiro, Grabois joined the Communist Youth of Brazil and at the age of twenty-two became its leader. After joining the National Liberation Alliance (Aliança Nacional Libertadora), an organization which gathered anti-fascist military officers he became one of the leaders of the unsuccessful Communist uprising of November, 1935 in Rio de Janeiro, Natal, and Recife. In 1967 Grabois started recruiting guerilla combatants in Pará Contemporary reports claim he was executed by Major ; a military report places the date of his death at December 25. His death has yet to be officially recognized by the government.