Las Trece

Las Trece Rosas is the collective name given to a group of thirteen young people, several of whom were members of the Unified Socialist Youth (JSU), who were shot by Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Madrid on 5 August 1939, four months after the end of the Spanish Civil War.

On 3 August 1939, the sentence handed down by the prosecutor of the Permanent War Council found the Trece Rosas ‘responsible for a crime of adherence to rebellion’.

The victims were between eighteen and twenty-nine years old. The Trece Rosas were Carmen Barrero Aguado, Martina Barroso García, Blanca Brisac Vázquez, Pilar Bueno Ibáñez, Julia Conesa Conesa, Adelina García Casillas, Elena Gil Olaya, Virtudes González García, Ana López Gallego, Joaquina López Laffite, Dionisia Manzanero Salas, Victoria Muñoz García and Luisa Rodríguez de la Fuente. In reality, fourteen women were shot, as Antonia Torre Yela, shot on 19 February 1940, must be added to the above. Among that first group of those executed, fifty men were also shot, including a fourteen-year-old boy.