Suzanne Masson

Suzanne Masson (10 July 1901 – 1 November 1943) was a union activist and communist, who was executed for her work in the French Resistance during World War II. In 1926 she became a member of a local labor group, abbreviated CGT. In February 1934 she joined the French communist party. In 1938 she was released from the turbine factory because of her involvement in strikes there with the federation of the French Communist Party of the Seine. She took part in solidarity actions with republican Spain fighters and their anti-fascism efforts. In 1939, after the French Communist Party was banned, she continued to work for it illegally.

After German troops occupied Paris on 14 June, Masson distributed leaflets and organized peoples' committees. In La Courneuve, she was instrumental in setting up the local resistance group and with her CGT comrades who had gone underground. On 5 February 1942, she was discovered and fled to her house at 95, boulevard Macdonald in Paris where she was arrested by the police of the French Vichy government who were cooperating with German occupiers.

In 2014, a path was named for Masson in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.

Other plaques In 1938, the Central Execution Center for Northern Germany was set up in the Hamburg remand prison. As of 1988, there were three commemorative plaques at the site.

The first was a general memorial for the approximately 500 people executed there during the Nazi era. The second commemorates two resistance fighters of the Resistance, France Bloch-Sérazin and Suzanne Masson. The third plaque names four Lübeck clergymen executed there in 1943 and who are referred to as Lübeck martyrs.