Elisa Garrido
1909–1990
- Nationality
- Spain
- Occupation
- trade unionist
Elisa Garrido García, also known as La Mañica and Françoise, (1909-1990) was an Aragonese anti-fascist militant.
Incarceration history
- Buchenwald concentration campDates unknown
- Ravensbrück concentration campDates unknown
- Maison d'arrêt de la SantéDates unknown
- Prison Saint-MichelDates unknown
Biography
Elisa Garrido García, also known as La Mañica and Françoise, (1909-1990) was an Aragonese anti-fascist militant. She was a member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) and fought against the nationalist faction in the Spanish Civil War and against the Nazi troops in France during World War II. She spent time in several prisons and three concentration camps, where she suffered mistreatment and torture. For her intervention in the world war, during which she blew up a German howitzer factory where she had been sent as a prisoner of war by the Germans, the French Republic awarded her the Legion of Honour and recognised her as a lieutenant in the French Resistance.