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**Koitscho Koitschew** (1922 - 2019) was a doctor,
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[anarcho-syndicalist](Anarcho-Syndicalism "wikilink") and
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[FAAU](Free_Women's_and_Workers'_Union_\(Germany\) "wikilink") member.
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## Life
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Born to a peasant family in rural Bulgaria, he became an
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anarcho-syndicalist as a teenager in the 1930s. He graduated from
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highschool in 1942 and joined the [anti-fascist
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resistance](Bulgarian_Resistance_\(WWII\) "wikilink"), he was also
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conscripted by fascists, both in [World War
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II](World_War_II "wikilink"). He also became a passionate advocate for
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[Esperanto](Esperanto "wikilink") to unite humanity with one language.
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After the war, he enrolled as a medical student at the University of
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Sofia and was active in the anarcho-syndicalist movement.
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After the takeover of Bulgaria by Stalinists, he was sent to a 'labor
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reeducation camp' and tortured, but he survived and was eventually
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released back to Sofia. He was expelled from the university and had to
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work as a construction worker and painter in the 1950s. He reenrolled in
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1965 and graduated in 1969, then emigrating to [East
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Germany](East_Germany "wikilink") as he married an East German citizen.
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In East Germany he worked as a doctor in Dresden, and communicated with
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numerous anarcho-syndicalists hiding underground in East Germany and
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Bulgaria, including Augustin Souchy, leaving the Stasi to have 1,400
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pages on him as they monitroed him. After the collapse of East Germany,
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he began to attend many FAAU meetings and establishing contact with the
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[IWA](International_Workers'_Association "wikilink") and translated
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material from Bulgarian to German and vice versa. He also became a
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passionate writer of poetry, and described as a witty, kind and devoted
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man.<ref>
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` `[`Koitscho`` ``Koitschew`` ``(1922-2019)`` ``[German``
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``language``
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``version]`](https://libcom.org/history/koitscho-koitschew-1922-2019)` - libcom.org`
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` `</ref>
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## References
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