Vida Mary Katie MacLean [SEP] occupation
Vida Mary Katie MacLean
Vida Mary Katie MacLean (4 November 1881–1 July 1970) was a New Zealand civilian and military nurse, hospital matron . She was born in Whangaehu, Wanganui, New Zealand on 4 November 1881.
Tone Tomšič, in 1937 who had also been arrested for communist activities. Vida Tomšič was eventually released from prison, and by 1940 she was admitted as a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia.
During the Italian occupation in 1941, Vida Tomšič used the name Mary Singer and gave birth to a son, but by December of that year both Tone and Vida Tomšič were arrested for their illegal political activities in support of the Communist Party. An Italian military tribunal sentenced Tone Tomšič to death, and