Shefqet Peçi, participant in the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Hero of the People, died in the Tirana prison hospital. He was born in the village of Picar in Kurvelesh, in 1906. He took part in the Vlora War in 1920. After completing his mandatory military service, he attended the non-commissioned officers’ school and was appointed an instructor at that school. In 1931 he was given the title of officer. For activities against the Zog regime, he was removed from the army and imprisoned in 1935 and 1937. He participated in the popular resistance against the fascist aggression of April 7, 1939. He was closely connected, from the beginning, with the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War and embraced the line of the Communist Party Albanian. Member of the Albanian Communist Party in March 1942. Due to his political and military skills, he was charged with important commanding functions in partisan detachments and battalions of the Vlorë- Gjirokastër Operative Zone I (1942–1943), commander of the V Assault Brigade (1944), deputy. commander of the 1st Assault Division (1944), commander of the headquarters of the forces of the Albanian National Liberation Army for the liberation of Kosovo and the Dukagjin Plain (1944), commander of the III Assault Corps (1944). After the liberation, he was appointed to leadership positions with responsibility in the army and in high state bodies: commander of the I Division of the National Army, commander of the People’s Protection Division, Minister of Communications and then of Mines, Chairman of the Control Commission of the State, vice president of the Presidium of the People’s Assembly (1970–1982), president of the War Veterans Committee of the Albanian People (1983–1991). Shefqet Peçi was a member of the Central Committee of the Labor Party of Albania and a deputy in the People’s Assembly in all legislatures. He was arrested on October 12, 1995 and died the same month. (In the photo: Shefqet Peçi)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 1967.
Photo: Veterans and Descendants of the ANC War of the Albanian People.
Graphic processing: AHCF
