Julia Batino ( Monastir,

Kingdom of Serbia The Kingdom of Serbia was a country located in the Balkans which was created when the ruler of the Principality of Serbia, Milan I of Serbia, Milan I, was proclaimed king in 1882. Since 1817, the Principality was ruled by the Obrenović dynast ...

1914 – Jasenovac, 1942) was a Macedonian Jewish antifascist and women's rights activist. She was made President of the Bitola WIZO (Croatian ZICO ''Ženska Internacionalna Cionisticka Organizacija'' Women's International Zionist Organization) in 1934, an organization which was actively involved in the progressive women's movement in Yugoslavia. Batino directed her energies towards the emancipation of Jewish women, particularly young women. Batino's connections to the Jewish community in Belgrade enabled her to send a certain number of Jewish girls from Bitola to work or study in Belgrade each year, among them Estreya Haim Ovadya, among the first women to join the Partisans in 1941. Batino was killed in the

Jasenovac concentration camp Jasenovac () was a concentration camp, concentration and extermination camp established in the Jasenovac, Sisak-Moslavina County, village of the same name by the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) in occupied Yugoslavia durin ...

in 1942.

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1914 births 1942 deaths People from Bitola Jewish feminists Jewish anti-fascists People who died in Jasenovac concentration camp Macedonian Jews who died in the Holocaust Yugoslav Partisans members Women in the Yugoslav Partisans Jews in the Yugoslav Partisans European Zionists Jewish women activists {{Macedonia-bio-stub

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