Magda Bošković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian communist, Partisan and member of the women's rights movement.
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Place of Birth: Osijek, Osijek-Baranja County, Croatia
About Magda Bošković
- Magda Boškovic (3 November 1914 – 1942) was a Croatian communist, Partisan and member of the women's rights movement. Boškovic was born in Osijek to a Jewish family of Dragutin and Ivanka (Janka) Boškovic.
- Her father was clerk at the bank, and her mother was a housewife.
- Boškovic was raised with younger sister Maja.
- In 1923 she moved with her family to Zagreb, Croatia.
- Boškovic finished elementary school and gymnasium in Zagreb.
- She later graduated from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb.
- In 1932 Boškovic was among the founders of Marxist group at the University of Zagreb.
- In 1934 she joined the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia and was elected as a board member of the student section in the Women's movement.
- Boškovic also worked on the accepting the Yugoslav volunteers who went to Spain to join the International Brigades in fight against Spanish Nationalists.
- She was an editor of the papers "Naše novine" (Our papers) and "Ženski svijet" (Women's world).
- After graduation Boškovic worked as a clerk at the sawmill company "Neuschloß, Schmidt und Marchetti" (later "Našicka d.d.").
- She worked in Ðurdenovac and later in Zagreb.
- Boškovic was active in the Women's rights movement across Croatia.
- After the Invasion of Yugoslavia in 1941, Boškovic joined the resistance movement in Croatia.
- She was a member of the Women's Antifascist Front of Croatia and council member of the "Društvo za prosvjetu žena" (Society for education of women).
- In 1942 Boškovic was arrested and imprisoned at Savska cesta prison.
- Later she was deported to Stara Gradiška concentration camp where she was killed by Ustaše.
- Her parents were also killed during the Holocaust, while only her sister managed to survive.
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