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On this day, 11 September 1913, Spanish civil war and resistance activist Maruja Lara was born in Granada. A domestic worker, she spent her childhood in Brazil and Argentina before returning to Spain. She escaped the fascist zone at the start of the civil war and briefly joined a militia until she worked as a nurse in one of the worker-run hospitals in Valencia. She also became active in the anarchist feminist Mujeres Libres group. Interned in a fascist concentration camp in 1939, she escaped and worked in a factory where she and other women set up an underground resistance group. Despite arrest in 1955, she remained active until her death aged 98.
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