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Maria Ginesta

August 23, 2014 in Modern Worthies

Maria Ginesta

Reporter, translator, revolutionary

This is French socialist revolutionary Maria Ginesta, 17 at the time of this picture, one of the most famous of the Spanish Civil War. She served as a reporter and translator, and this picture was almost the only time she took up a gun. She died at the age of 94 in January of this... Read more »

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