Benita Uribarrena Bollaín
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- Santiago Uribarrena Munitxa (father)
- Benita Bollaín Bilbao (mother)
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| Born | March 16, 1922 Durango, Spain |
| Died | October 12, 2011 (aged 89) Le Soler, France |
| Political party | Communist Party of Spain |
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Benita Uribarrena Bollaín (Durango, 16 March 1922 – Le Soler, 12 October 2011) was a member of the Communist Party of Spain and the Antifascist Women Union. She took part in the French Resistance during the Second World War.[1][2]
Her mother, Benita Bollaín Bilbao, was a communist and owned a press kiosk in the Ezkurdi place in Durango, Spain, which earned her the nickname of "Benita the Journalist". She was the first to announce the near proclamation of the II Republic in the town and was detained in a kennel for it.[1][2]
Her father, Santiago Uribarrena Munitxa, a socialist activist, was a railway worker. After the strikes of October 1934, the Civil Guard arrested him and forced him to get into a river to turn in weapons, getting sick and dying a few days later. His funeral was celebrated on 30 December 1934, which was the first civil funeral in Durango.[1][2]
Benita was the youngest of four siblings. After the bombing of Durango on 31 March 1937, she was evacuated together with one of her sisters and her mother. They arrived in France in June 1937 with the Habana ship.[1][2]