Misto Mame

Misto Mame is an Albanian World War II People's Hero. He was killed in action against Fascist Italian forces on 16 August 1942.

Misto Mame
Born1921
Erind, Gjirokastër, Albania
Died16 August 1942 (age 21)
Tirana, Albania
NationalityAlbanian
Known forPartisan during the War of Liberation
Awards Hero of the People

Mame was born in 1921 in Erind, Gjirokastër.[1] He was an active participant in the antifascist demonstration and member of the Committee of Tirana of the Party of Labour of Albania, then Communist Party of Albania (Albanian: Partia Komuniste e Shqipërisë). He also was the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth. He was the commander of one of the communist antifascist guerrilla cells in Tiranë.

He was involved in a series of guerrilla actions, such as that of burning a military weapon repository of Fascist Italy in Tirana, Albania. The fire lasted for 48 hours and damages of 5M Albanian francs were reported. Mame died, at 21, in one of Tiranë's neighborhoods, which still bears his name, while fiercely fighting, although outnumbered by Italian fascist soldiers.

One of the biggest woodworking plants in Albania, founded in the 1950s bears his name.[2]

References
  1. Yearbook on International Communist Affairs By Richard Felix Staar, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace page 286
  2. The economic journal: the quarterly journal of the Royal Economic ..., Volume 69 By British Economic Association, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain), JSTOR (Organization), Ingenta (Firm)

Sources
  • Vaso Boshnjaku Misto Mame N. Frashëri (1962), (Albanian)


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