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.

Life

She studied at the Institución de la Enseñanza para la Mujer, the Instituto Lluís Vives and

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and schoolteaching at the university, where she was also in the athletic federation

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

Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebelión, lin ...

, she was in a

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, where she could later run away with her husband Arnoldo Azzatti (whose father was the journalist Félix Azzatti) to the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national ...

where she worked as a schoolteacher for the Spanish refugee children, and in

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, she saved 14 children in the

Battle of Stalingrad The Battle of Stalingrad (23 August 19422 February 1943) was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later re ...

. She took part in the

15-M Movement The anti-austerity movement in Spain, also referred to as the 15-M Movement (Spanish: ''Movimiento 15-M''), and the Indignados Movement, was a series of protests, demonstrations, and occupations against austerity policies in Spain that began aro ...

in 2011.

Works

* 2009, ''La vida es un río caudaloso con peligrosos rápidos''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Soler, Alejandra 1913 births 2017 deaths People from Valencia Spanish schoolteachers Politicians from the Valencian Community Spanish centenarians 20th-century Spanish educators 21st-century Spanish educators Spanish women educators Women centenarians 20th-century women educators 21st-century women educators 20th-century Spanish women politicians