Petra Petersen

She was one of the most active organisers in the communist resistance movement around Odense until the end of the war.

In June 1941, she was arrested by the Danish police but was released three weeks later on condition she avoided political activities.

She helped to publish and distribute the illegal communist paper Land og Folk and was one of the founders and main contributors of Trods Alt, the monthly communist magazine first published in July 1942.

[3] After the Freedom Council was established in September 1943, she became a member of the local committee in Odense.

[1] Her political activities continued after the war in her position as chairman of the Odense communist division.