Elisa Garrido aka La Mañica, Ponzán Network Member and Anti-Nazi Saboteur
Today we continue with our “Women who took up arms” section and travel to France to look at the story of Elisa Garrido Gracia. She was a militian in the anarchist columns. A courier for the Ponzán network and was deported to the Nazi camps and ended up as a saboteur. Most importantly of all, she lived to tell the tale.
From: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ni-cautivos-ni-desarmados/elisa-garrido-la-manica-integrante-de-la-red-ponzan-y-saboteadora-antinazi. Translated by: Paul Sharkey.
Subjects:
- Anarchist resistance to Hitler
- French resistance
- Garrido Gracia, Elisa (1909-1990)
- History of Anarchism
- Holocaust
- Lives (biography, autobiography)
- Ponzán network / Pat O'Leary Line
- Ponzán Vidal, Francisco (1911-1944)
- Spanish anarchists outside Spain
- Spanish Revolution and Spanish Civil War SCW
- Women
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