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Lepa Svetozara Radić (Serbian Cyrillic: Лепа Светозара Радић; 19 December 1925 – 8 February 1943) was a Yugoslav Partisan and communist of Serbian origin who was awarded the Order of the People's Hero in 1951 for her role in the resistance movement against the Axis powers in the Second World War—becoming the youngest recipient at the time.
Pages in category "Women in the Yugoslav Partisans" The following 45 pages are in this category, out of 45 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Yugoslav Partisans mobilized many women. [139] The Yugoslav National Liberation Movement claimed 6,000,000 civilian supporters; its two million women formed the Antifascist Front of Women (AFŽ), in which the revolutionary coexisted with the traditional. The AFŽ managed schools, hospitals and even local governments.
There was founded the Women's Antifascist Front of Yugoslavia, with the aim of mobilizing women for assisting new units, helping partisan government bodies, participating in armed and sabotage actions, and the development of 'Brotherhood and Unity' among women.
After the liberation of Yugoslavia, Alargić belonged to a group of female revolutionaries who achieved a longer political career. She held the positions of a member of the City Committee of the Alliance of Communists of Belgrade (), was President of the Alliance of Women's Societies of Belgrade and a member of the Main Board of the Anti-Fascist Front of Women of Serbia.
She took up various social and humanitarian causes, including women's rights. After Yugoslavia was invaded by the Axis powers in April 1941, Bosnia became part of the Independent State of Croatia, a fascist puppet state. Maglajlić entered the Communist Party of Yugoslavia in May and joined the growing Partisan resistance movement. Her high ...
Marija Bursać (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Бурсаћ; 2 August 1920 – 23 September 1943) was a member of the Yugoslav Partisans during World War II in Yugoslavia and the first woman proclaimed a People's Hero of Yugoslavia. Bursać was born to a Bosnian Serb farming family in the village of Kamenica, near Drvar.
The Women’s Movements’ Alliance was a women's rights organization in Yugoslavia, founded in 1923.It was initially known as the Feminist Alliance of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, changed name to Feminist Alliance (FA— Feministička Alijansa), and in 1926 to Women’s Movements’ Alliance or AŽP— Alijansa ženskih pokreta / Alijansa ženskih pokretov).