Alejandra Soler Gilabert (8 July 1913 – 1 March 2017) was a

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politician and schoolteacher. She also worked for the

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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

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, and in 1934, she became a member of the communist party. After the

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, 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

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, where she worked as a schoolteacher for the Spanish refugee children. In

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, she saved 14 children in the

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. She took part in the

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in 2011.

Works

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

References

1913 births 2017 deaths People from Valencia Spanish schoolteachers Politicians from the Valencian Community Spanish women centenarians 20th-century Spanish educators 21st-century Spanish educators 21st-century Spanish politicians 20th-century Spanish women politicians 20th-century Spanish women educators 21st-century Spanish women educators {{Spain-politician-stub