Conxa Pérez Collado

Concha Pérez Collado was a Spanish anarchist involved with the CNT, and later the CGT. Involved with anarchist activities by the age of 17, she was part of an armed group ready to take on nationalist forces when the Spanish Civil War started in July 1936. She saw action in Barcelona and Aragon, before eventually moving to a French refugee camp where she gave birth to her only son.