Jaburkova, Jozka (d. 1944)
Jaburkova, Jozka (d. 1944)
Czechoslovakian feminist and patriot . Died in 1944.
A journalist and author by trade, Jozka Jaburkova edited The Disseminator magazine, wrote children's books, and published three novels about working women. She was also an early leader in the women's progressive movement and a member of the Prague City Council. During the 1930s, Jaburkova joined the Communist Party, campaigning for employment equity for women as well as for nurseries and schools for their children. She was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp at the onset of the German occupation, where shortly before her death in 1944, she organized a resistance movement. At the end of World War II, Jaburkova was a national hero, and in 1965 a statue was erected to her memory in Prague.