Person - Pla Pechovierto, Palmira (1914-2007)
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Pla Pechovierto, Palmira (1914-2007)Other forms
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Cretas (Teruel, España) 1914-03-31 - Castelló de la Plana (Castellón, España) 2007-08-27
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Spanish politician, teacher and pedagogue. In 1927, she began her studies of Education in the Escuela de Magisterio of Teruel, obtaining her title in July 1936. In 1931, she joined the Juventudes Socialistas, Socialist Youth, and taught to the workers from the Casa Pueblo of Teruel. Since 1935, she was a member of the FETE-UGT (Federation of Education Workers-General Union of Workers), and that same year, she obtained a vacancy in a school in the capital from Teruel. During the Spanish Civil War, she worked as teacher and delegate of the Colonias Escolares of Aragón, school retreats, being of charge of those from Graus, Benasque, Estadilla and Puigcerdé. Once the war was over, she exiled to France, where she was pushed to a refugees camp in Saint Jean du Bruel. During the Second World War, she worked as a tailor for the Nazi Army. After the war, she lived in Toulouse, where she participated as delegate of PSOE in its 1st Congress celebrated in the exile, in 1944. In Paris, she married to Adolfo Jumeno Velilla in 1946, a socialist leader in exile. They both emigrated to Venezuela, on board of the "Colomby" clinique-ship. In Caracas, she worked in the school "Los Caobos", and founded the Instituto Calicanto in Maracay coty, where she taught following the pedagogic system of the Institución Libre de Enseñanza. She returned to Spain in the 70s, and became again teacher in Valdealgorfa (Teruel). In the very first democratic elections, she was chosen deputy for Castelón by the socialist parliamentary group, PSOE, for the constituent legislature of 1977-79. Soon after that, she taught in the Colegio Cardenal Cisneros of Almazora (Castellón), until her retirement. In 2004, she published "Momentos de una vida", and founded the Fundacion Palmira Pla, in order to aid the most disadvantaged sectors.
Date of the event: 1977-07-13 - 1979-01-02
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
Date of the event: 1939 - 1945
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Las mujeres parlamentarias en la legislatura constituyente. [Copia digital]. dirección y coordinación, Julia Sevilla Merino ... [et al] ; con la colaboración de Ana Aba Catoira ... [et al]. Madrid: Cortes Generales, Departamento de Publicaciones. 2006. XVIII, 532 p.. 000-06-016-2.
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