Nevena Georgieva

Nevena Georgieva-Dunja (in Macedonian: Невена Георгиева-Дуња, August 25, 1925, Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia – December 16, 1942, Veles, Northern Macedonia[1]) was a Macedonian Yugoslav Partisan. She participated in the 1941 Yugoslav independence struggle during World War II. At the age of 16 she was the youngest fighter in the Macedonian partisan units, and she was the first woman to be a Macedonian partisan fighter.[2]

Nevena Georgieva-Dunja
BornAugust 25, 1925
Skopje, Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DiedDecember 16, 1942
Veles, Northern Macedonia
Nationality
  • Yugoslavian
OccupationYugoslav Partisan fighter
Years active1941 and 1942

Life

Georgieva was born on July 25, 1925 in Skopje, in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. She became a fighter in the Skopje Partisan Detachment when it was created on August 22, 1941. After the reorganization of the detachment in November 1941, she went to Veles, and then to Strumica, where she helped form the Strumica Partisan Detachment in the summer of 1942. She was sentenced in absentia to 7 years in prison by the occupying powers in May 1942. In September of 1942, she became a fighter in the Veles Partisan Detachment that was named after the politician Dimitar Vlahov.[1]

Georgieva was killed on December 16, 1942 in Veles, during the Bulgarian occupation of North Macedonia, in a confrontation with the Bulgarian police and Bulgarian paramilitary troops.[3][4]

Legacy

Georgieva is widely considered a national hero of North Macedonia.[1] Georgieva is featured as a heroine in multiple Macedonian folk songs, notably По поле одат аргати and Пуста останала таја контра чета.[5] She is also the namesake of two elementary schools, Kisela Voda and Nejilovo, as well as one of the student dormitories in Skopje.[1] There are also a number of statues of Nevena Georgieva, including busts in Kisela Voda and in Skopje. A memorial plaque was installed in the Women Fighters Park in Skopje, and another in Nejilovo was unveiled in 2013.[6]

References
  1. Блаже Ристовски, ed. (2009). Encyclopaedia Macedonica, Македонска енциклопедија (in Macedonian). Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts. p. 347–348.
  2. Велешки партизански одред 1942 (in Macedonian). Skopje. 1999.
  3. Малковски, Ѓорѓи (1995). Профашистичките и колаборационистичките организации и групи во Македонија 1941-1944 (in Macedonian).
  4. Велес, Т. (1985). Велес и Велешко во НОВ 1941–1945, Спомен книга (in Macedonian).
  5. Марко Цепенков (1980). Лазо Каровски; Ѓорѓи М. Ѓорѓиев (eds.). Македонски песни за народноослободителната борба. Institute of Folklore of North Macedonia.
  6. "Украдени две бисти на народни херои во Скопје". Дневник. 27 May 2016. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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