Nevena Georgieva
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Nevena Georgieva-Dunja | |
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| Born | 25 August, 1925 |
| Died | 16 December, 1942 Nežilovo, Čaška, Kingdom of Bulgaria |
| Years active | 1941-1942 |
Nevena Georgieva-Dunja (Macedonian: Невена Георгиева-Дуња, 25 August, 1925 – 16 December, 1942)[1] was a Macedonian Yugoslav Partisan. She participated in the 1941 Yugoslav communist resistance during World War II. At the age of 16 she was the youngest fighter in the Macedonian partisan units, and she was the first woman to be a Macedonian partisan fighter.[2]
Georgieva was born on 25 July, 1925 in Skopje, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She became a fighter in the Skopje Partisan Detachment when it was created on 22 August, 1941. After the reorganization of the detachment in November 1941, she went to Veles, and then to Strumica, where she helped form the Strumica Partisan Detachment in the summer of 1942. She was sentenced in absentia to 7 years in prison by the occupying powers in May 1942. In September of 1942, she became a fighter in the Veles Partisan Detachment that was named after the politician Dimitar Vlahov.[1]
Georgieva was killed on 16 December, 1942 in Nežilovo, Čaška, during the World War II in Yugoslav Macedonia by a local anti-guerrilla detachment,[3][4] while covering the escape of her adult comrades in the guerrilla squad.[5][better source needed] Her head was cut off and paraded through the villages and the city of Veles by the local anti-guerrilla chetniks to cause fear amongst the population.[6]
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