Kuzman Josifovski Pitu

Kuzman Josifovski Pitu (Macedonian: Кузман Јосифовски – Питу; 23 June 1915 – 25 February 1944) was a Macedonian communist partisan and one of the organizers of the Peoples's Liberation Struggle in Macedonia who was declared a People's Hero of Yugoslavia.

[1][2][3] He was born in 1915 in Prilep (then in the Kingdom of Serbia) and studied Faculty of Law in Belgrade from 1935.

There he attended a number of local conferences and meetings dedicated to the organisation of the antifascist struggle in that area.

In early 1943, Kuzman became a member of the Main headquarters of the People's liberation army and Partisan units of Macedonia.

[4] On 25 February 1944, he went to Skopje (then annexed by the Kingdom of Bulgaria) for a secret meeting of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Workers' Party.