Georgette Kokoczynski

[1] After taking part in a rally in Paris, in September 1936, she went to Spain and joined the International Group of the Durruti Column.

She was assigned to the Aragon Front, together with the German anarchists Augusta Marx and Madeleine Gierth, to look after the canteen and the infirmary.

Georgette Kokoczynski died on 17 October 1936 in the battle of Perdiguera near Zaragoza, together with other nurses and dozens of foreign volunteers.

[1][4] Kokoczynski kept a diary from her departure from Paris, in September 1936, until her arrival on the Aragon Front, in October 1936.

[3] It was discovered by Édouard Sill in the collections of the International Institute of Social History (IISG) in Amsterdam under the title Journal de ma Campagne in 2006.