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Alejandra Soler

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Alejandra Soler
Alejandra Soler in 2017
Born(1913-07-08)8 July 1913
Died1 March 2017(2017-03-01) (aged 103)
Valencia, Spain
Occupation(s)teacher, politician
Notable workLa vida es un río caudaloso con peligrosos rápidos, 2009
SpouseArnoldo Azzatti

Alejandra Soler Gilabert (8 July 1913 – 1 March 2017) was a Spanish politician and schoolteacher. She also worked for the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.[1][2]

Life

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She studied at the Institución de la Enseñanza para la Mujer, the Instituto Lluís Vives and humanities and schoolteaching at the university, where she was also in the athletic federation FUE.[3]

She took part in the revolts against Miguel Primo de Rivera, and in 1934, she became a member of the communist party.[4]

After the Spanish Civil War, she was in a French refugee camp, where she could later run away with her husband Arnoldo Azzatti (whose father was the journalist Félix Azzatti) to the Soviet Union, where she worked as a schoolteacher for the Spanish refugee children. In World War II, she saved 14 children in the Battle of Stalingrad.[5]

She took part in the 15-M Movement in 2011.[citation needed]

Works

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  • 2009, La vida es un río caudaloso con peligrosos rápidos

References

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  1. ^ Levante-EMV (March 2017). "Fallece a los 103 años la maestra republicana Alejandra Soler". levante-emv.com. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ Malinoshevsky, Yaroslav. "Испанка Алехандра Солер - участница обороны Сталинграда - Газета Слово - Новости Португалии, Испании и Италии". gazetaslovo.com. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  3. ^ recaredo2014 (12 May 2015). "Son Leyenda: Alejandra Soler". wordpress.com. Retrieved 9 March 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "La Universitat rinde homenaje a Alejandra Soler, pionera del asociacionismo universitario durante la República". uv.es. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  5. ^ Palomo, Alberto G. (17 February 2013). "La lucha no acaba a los 100 años". El País.