Elisa García Sáez
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Sant Andreu de Palomar, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Republican faction
Confederal militiasElisa García Sáez | |
|---|---|
| Born | 22 September 1916 Sant Andreu de Palomar, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Died | 24 August 1936 (aged 19) Sarinyena, Huesca, Spain |
| Allegiance | Republican faction |
| Service | Confederal militias |
| Years of service | 1936 |
| Battles / wars | Spanish Civil War |
Elisa García Sáez (1916-1936) was a trade unionist, radical feminist and anti-fascist that fought as a militiawoman in the Spanish Civil War.
Elisa García Sáez was born in 1916,[1][2] in the Sant Andreu district of Barcelona.[1][2][3] She worked in the district's Fabra i Coats factory, where she first became involved in feminist and syndicalist activism,[2][3] joining a young women's cooperative, as well as the General Union of Workers (UGT)[1][2][3] and the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).[1]
Following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, she took up arms and joined a column of the confederal militias on the Aragon Front.[1][2] She was seriously injured during the bombardment of Tardienta by the Nationalists.[2][4] She was transferred to the Republican hospital at Sarinyena, where she died of her injuries,[2][4][5] on 24 August 1936.[4] She was one of the first militiawoman to die during the war.[3]
Her obituary in Solidaridad Obrera declared:
"[...] She did not accept a non-military role for women, since she understood that they had to fight like men and it was only up to cowards to refuse armed struggle [...].[6]"
