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Some notable events around anarchism that happened in 1942.

March[]

  • 7: 91-year old Lucy Parson dies in a house fire in Chicago, Illinois, USA. The FBI seizes most of her books. 300 people attended her funeral held 5 days later.[1]

June[]

  • 8: Anarchist Jose Pellicer Gandia is executed in Paterna, Spain by the Francoist government. He was 30 years old.[2]

August[]

  • 8: María Pérez Lacruz is executed by Francoist Spain in Paterna at age 25.[3]
  • Unknown date: Sascha Shapiro is murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland. He was at least 52 years old.[4]

December[]

  • 22: Gerhard Wartenberg dies in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Nazi Germany. The Gestapo claimed he died from illness.[5]

Unknown month[]

  • The “Green Guard” anarchist militia is started by Osip Tsebriy in Ukraine as part of an effort to re-establish the Makhnovist movement in World War II. The group engages in combat against both Nazi Germany, far-right Ukrainian nationalists and the Soviet Union.[6]

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