At the end of the war, she returned to Romania and worked as the director of the Ministry of Education and numerous other governmental posts, until she was purged in 1952.
[3] After completing her secondary education at Carmen Sylva High School in Botoșani, Marcusohn moved to Bucharest to undertake medical studies.
She later recalled about the Carmen Sylva school: "It was the nom de plume of Romania’s first queen, Elisabeth, the wife of Carol I.
[3] She joined the Students' Democratic Front, an organization aligned with the Romanian Communist Party and wrote articles for journals on the international anti-fascist movement.
Goldmann often took part in the debates at the Schuller, taking a Marxist line while also venturing into more esoteric topics such as the impact of the theories of Einstein and Freud for Marxism and the understanding of human sexuality.
[5] Goldmann's theories, which were regarded as eccentric, brought him into conflict with the Stalinist Union of Communist Youth, which accused him of Trotskyism.
[3][7] On 28 December 1937, King Carol II of Romania appointed Octavian Goga of the extreme right-wing National Christian Party as prime minister.
[8] Marcusohn began working in the marine biology laboratory of Édouard Chatton in Banyuls-sur-Mer, but by September had decided to return to Paris.
[11] French Jews were usually described politely as Israélites while the more derogatory term les Juifs was reserved for Jewish immigrants, especially from Eastern Europe.
In 1942 when the OS-MOI merged with two other groups to form the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans—Main-d'Œuvre Immigrée (FTP-MOI),[12] Marcusohn changed her name again, to Cristina Luca, and became and intelligence officer in the resistance.
[18] She specialized in constructing Molotov cocktails, and as the intelligence chief of the FTP-MOI she played a key role in the investigation to find the informer who betrayed Missak Manouchian and his group in November 1943.
[3] Ultimately, her investigation exposed as the informer as Joseph Davidowicz, the political commissar to the groupe Manouchian, who was promptly killed.
[3] Because of the Tito–Stalin Split, Luca was recalled to Romania and began working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in charge of the press department.
[3] Shortly after the marriage, Stalin began targeting veterans of the Spanish Civil War and those who had been involved in the French Resistance,[21] placing both Boico and her husband, who was known as Bibi, under suspicion.
In the 1960s, she began working as the editor of the Scientific Publishing House and later taught courses on Marxism at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.
[26] At the time of her death she was writing a memoir entitled Histoire d’une famille au XXème siècle Souvenirs et réflexions.
[2] In 2009, the French novelist Didier Daeninckx published a novel Missak, where Luca Boico is mentioned several times as the book's hero, the journalist Dragère, seeks in 1955 to find out who betrayed Manouchian.