Todor Angelov

Todor Angelov Dzekov
Posthumous monument at Kyustendil, Bulgaria
Born	Todor Angelov Dzekov (1900-01-12)January 12, 1900 Kyustendil, Bulgaria
Died	November 30, 1943(1943-11-30) (aged 43) Fort Breendonk, Belgium
Cause of death	Execution
Known for	Member of the Belgian Resistance
Spouse	Aleksandra Sharlandzhieva
Awards	Order of Leopold

Todor Angelov Dzekov (Bulgarian: Тодор Ангелов Дзеков, rendered in French as Théodore Angheloff; 12 January 1900 – 30 November 1943) was a Bulgarian anarcho-communist activist who lived in exile in Belgium for much of his adult life. He served in the Bulgarian Dimitrov Battalion during the Spanish Civil War and, during the German occupation of Belgium, was a leader within the Partisans Armés as part of the Belgian Resistance. He was captured and executed in 1943.

In Belgium, Angelov was an active supporter of the Communist Party of Belgium. In 1942, he organized a resistance group, the "Corps Mobile de Bruxelles", under the auspices of the "Partisans Armés" and associated with the "Front de l'Indépendance", the major Belgian underground movement.

Further reading

• (in French) Steinberg, Maxime; Gotovitch, José (2007). Otages de la terreur nazie: le Bulgare Angheloff et son groupe de partisans juifs, Bruxelles, 1940-1943. Brussels: VUB press. ISBN 9789054874539.
• (in Bulgarian) Николова, Кристина. "Списъкът на Тодор Ангелов" (in Bulgarian). ТЕМА. Retrieved 2008-10-09.

External links

• По особено жесток начин / With Extreme Cruelty (2006) Documentary with Angelov's daughter Svoboda Bachvarova sharing her memories of Todor Angelov (English subtitles)
• The monument of Todor Angelov in Schaerbeek, Belgium