The entries of today and tomorrow will hardly be the last women, the last anti-fascists, or the last women anti-fascists to grace these pages.
But this small themed set offers a complementary couplet of resistance: women of almost diametrically opposed circumstances who in vastly different ways opposed fascism at the risk (and ultimately, the forfeit) of their lives.
On this day..
- 1881: Percy Lefroy Mapleton, police sketch milestone
- 1937: Vincenzo Baccala
- 1343: A dozen Breton nobles
- 1740: Edward Shuel, for a Catholic-Protestant marriage
- 1986: The Moiwana Massacre
- 1793: Antoine Barnave, constitutional monarchist
- 1284: Alice Bowe and her friends
- 1938: Branislaw Tarashkyevich, Belarusian linguist
- 1330: Roger Mortimer, usurper
- 1957: Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas
- 1781: The slaves of the Zong, for the insurance
- 1517: Torben Oxe
- 1941: Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
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Could you please tell me where I might find photos of women executed at Plozensee in 1941. I have tried all possiblities and have always come up empty. Please help if you can Thankyou Ursula