María Adela Gard de Antokoletz, Date of Birth, Date of Death

María Adela Gard de Antokoletz

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1911

Date of Death: 23-Jul-2002

Profession: human rights activist

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Libra

María Adela Gard de Antokoletz (October 11, 1911 – July 23, 2002) was one of fourteen women who founded the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo movement.
Her son Daniel was abducted in November 1976.
Later, when she was working for the provincial courts in Buenos Aires, she joined other mothers of missing children to found the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
This group was dedicated to finding out what had happened to their missing children.
As part of this group, María Adela Gard de Antokoletz led protest marches every Thursday on Buenos Aires's Plaza de Mayo holding a picture of her son.
Throughout her life, she received death threats because of her work, but she refused to forget what had happened to her son.