Mirka Ginova
Mirka Ginova | |
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| Born | 1916 Rusilovo near Vodena, Greece |
| Died | 26 July 1946 Giannitsa, Greece |
| Cause of death | Gunshot wounds |
| Other names | Irini Gini |
| Occupation(s) | Teacher, partisan |
Mirka Ginova (Macedonian: Мирка Гинова), also known as Irini/Eirini Gini (Greek: Ειρήνη Γκίνη; 1916 – 26 July 1946), was a Slavic Macedonian communist partisan and teacher during World War II and Greek Civil War. She was the first woman to receive capital punishment in Greece.
Biography
Ginova was born in a pro-Bulgarian family[1] in the village of Rusilovo (now Xanthogeia), near Vodena (now Edessa), Greece, in 1916. In the 1930s, she attended the Kastoria Nursery School Teachers' Academy.[1][2] Ginova joined the Young Communist League of Greece in 1943.[3] She was also a member of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS).[2] While three members of her family joined the Bulgarian Club of Thessaloniki, she joined the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).[1] In April 1945, she was appointed as a teacher at a nursery school in Arnissa and joined a local National Liberation Front's (NOF) committee.[1][4] The right-wing village council had her removed for "unseemly conduct" and alleged complicity in a murder of two brothers, and she fled to avoid arrest. After the Greek Civil War broke out in 1946, she joined a guerilla group of NOF.[1][3] Ginova was captured by the Greek army and sentenced to death by the military court in Giannitsa. KKE campaigned to have her sentence commuted.[1] Despite the campaign, she was executed by a firing squad on 26 July 1946.[4][5] She was the first woman in Greece to be executed.[6] Her memory has been honored in North Macedonia and among the Greek leftists.[3] A bust of her is in Bitola.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f John S. Koliopoulos (1999). Plundered Loyalties: Axis Occupation and Civil Strife in Greek West Macedonia, 1941-1949. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-1-8506-5381-3.
- ^ a b c Boyd Cothran; Joan Judge; Adrian Shubert, eds. (2020). Women Warriors and National Heroes: Global Histories (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Academic. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-3501-4030-1.
- ^ a b c Bechev, Dimitar (2019-09-03). Historical Dictionary of North Macedonia. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 126. ISBN 978-1-5381-1962-4.
- ^ a b Macedonian Encyclopedia (in Macedonian). MANU. 2009. p. 358.
- ^ Polymeris Voglis (2002). Becoming a Subject: Political Prisoners During the Greek Civil War. Berghahn Books. p. 151. ISBN 978-1-5718-1308-4.
- ^ Mazower, Mark M. (2000). After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State in Greece, 1943-1960. Princeton University Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-6910-5842-9.
External links
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