Lisa Gavric
Lisa Gavric (born July 31, 1907 in Vienna as Elisabeth Bechmann ; † June 22, 1974 in Dubna ) was an Austrian fighter in Spain and resistance fighter in the Resistance .
Life
Lisa Gavric trained as a milliner . In 1927 she fled her middle-class home to Paris . There she met the Yugoslav communist Milan Gavric . In 1929 they married and daughter Inga Tarasova was born. She moved to Yugoslavia with her husband and was sentenced there in 1933 to a 10-month prison term for “communist activities”.
In 1936 she went to the Interbrigades in Spain as a paramedic and worked at the Casa Roja Hospital in Murcia . She also worked there in the university clinic.
After the defeat of the Spanish republic against the Falangist putschists and their fascist aides, she fled to France and was interned there in Camp de Gurs . After escaping from the internment camp, she joined the Resistance and the Free Germany Movement .
Under the code name Maria , she and Mado were one of the contact persons for the anti-fascist resistance group of the Free Germany Movement around Kurt Hälker in the Naval Staff West in Paris for the Forces françaises libres .
To support the Austrian resistance movement, she went to Vienna as a French civil worker Marie-Louise Béranger . On July 11, 1944, she was arrested by the Gestapo in Austria and deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . There she was put on a list of foreign prisoners and deported to Sweden .
She died of a serious heart attack while visiting her daughter.
Fonts
- Street of Reality. Verlag Neues Leben 1984 DNB 890422621
- Report on the internment camp Gurs, in: Women from Germany in the French Resistance.
- The question mark man. Memories of Ravensbrück (PDF file; 95 kB)
- Whoever enters here, leave all hope. Memory of Ravensbrück as PDF in: Utopie Kreativ 2005 (48 kB)
- April days 1945
literature
- Renée Lugschitz: Spain fighters. Foreign women in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939. (= Politics and contemporary history 7). LIT Verlag: Berlin 2012. ISBN 978-3-643-50404-3 review
- Ulla Plener (Ed.): Women from Germany in the French Resistance. Labor movement series: research, documents, biographies. Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-929390-80-9 .
- Irene Filip: Women in the International Brigades . (PDF; 217 kB).
- Charlotte Rombach: Lisa Gavric - communist and resistance fighter . (PDF; 69 kB).
- Walter Baier : Communists 1918–2008 . Published by KPÖ (PDF; 466 kB).
- Lisl Rizy, Willi Weinert: Am I a good soldier and a good comrade? - Austrian Communists in the Spanish Civil War and after. Stern, Vienna 2008.
Web links
Evidence and Notes
- ↑ The Volunteer, March 2005 (PDF file; 112 kB)
- ↑ Photographs ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Ravensbrück - Bulletin of the Austrian Camp Community: Obituary page 8, November 1974 edition ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 1.94 MB)
- ^ University of Kassel - AG Peace Research: Women from Germany in the French Resistance
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gavric, Lisa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bechmann, Elisabeth (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian resistance fighter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1974 |
| Place of death | Dubna |