Jean Borremans
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Jean Louis Ghislain Borremans (Kasteelbrakel
Braine-le-Château
Braine-le-Château is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Walloon Brabant. On January 1, 2006 Braine-le-Château had a total population of 9,446...

, 14 May 1911 - Brussels
Brussels
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, 8 February 1968) was a Belgian
Belgium
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 politician from the communist party PCB
Communist Party of Belgium
Communist Party of Belgium was a political party in Belgium. The youth wing of KPB/PCB was known as the Communist Youth of Belgium. The party published Le Drapeau Rouge in French and De Roode Vaan in Dutch.- History :It was formed at a congress in Anderlecht on September 3-4 1921...

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Borremans was a labourer and communist Member of Parliament. He was arrested in April 1941 with another Brussels delegate of the party, Jules Vanderlinden, and deported to a concentration camp. He survived the war and returned to politics in the 1950s.

Political career

  • 1939 - 1949: Representative for the electoral district Nijvel
  • 1946 - 1947: Minister of Public Works
  • 1950 - 1954: Representative for the electoral district Nijvel

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