Aurora Picornell

Aurora Picornell Femenias (1 October 1912 – 5 January 1937) was a Spanish seamstress, unionist and feminist activist, member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).

At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Majorca fell into the hands of the Francoist rebels after a military coup.

Picornell was the first woman arrested in the Casa del Poble ("House of the People", i.e. Party headquarters), and incarcerated in Mallorca's women's prison.

[4] Her husband, who became a leading member of the underground communist party after the war, was detained in 1941 and executed by firing squad in 1942 after enduring months of torture.

[5] Aurora's younger brother Joan died shortly after being liberated from the Dachau concentration camp while her sister Llibertat exiled to Mexico and France.