KUZMAN JOSIFOVSKI

KUZMAN JOSIFOVSKI - PITU

Kuzman Josifovski (Pitu) Kuzman Josifovski - Pitu was born on 23 of June 1915 in Prilep. He was a member of KPJ from 1938, and later joined NOB in 1941. Pitu finished secondary school in Bitola and from 1935, he studied law in the University in Belgrade. There he was a student leader and organised the student group "Vardar" where the student communists had the biggest influence. In 1939, Pitu goes to Prilep on a job for his party. The same year he participated in the province meetings of KPJ for Macedonia. Two years later, he became a member of the province Komitet of KPJ for Macedonia. After the occupation, Pitu (as a member of the Partizan leadership in Macedonia) works in its own western part, in which was occupied by Italy and in Prilep he formed a Regional Komitet of the party. In May 1943, as a member of PK and KPJ for Macedonia he led the Suburban Komitet in Tetovo.
In the beginning of 1943, Kuzman became a member of the Main headquarters of NOB and PO of Macedonia. The same year he participated in organising the meeting of our military and political leaders with representatives from the Albanian people, with aim to encourage the freedom battle in Albania, and he also came in contact with the Greek - Partizan's.
On 25 February 1944, when he came to the meeting with representatives of the Central Komitet of the Bulgarian labour party, the police killed him near the railway track in Kozle near Skopje.

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