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Marina Ginestà
Marina Ginestà i Coloma (29 January 1919 – 6 January 2014) was a French-born Catalan veteran of the Spanish Civil War, and a member of the Unified Socialist Youth. She became famous due to the photo taken by Juan Guzmán on the rooftop of Plaça de Catalunya 9, 08002 Barcelona, Catalonia, Barcelona during the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona. It is one of the most iconic photographs of the Spanish Civil War.
Life.
Ginestà was born in Toulouse, on 29 January
managed to gain a small cache of weapons.  Following this, her group went to Caspe on the Aragon front.
Marina Ginestà i Coloma was another woman on the front in Madrid in July 1937.  Originally from France and a member of the Unified Socialist Youth, she joined the war as a reporter when she was only 17 years old. Ginestà i Coloma , working with Mikhail Koltsov, served as a photographer and translator for the Soviet newspaper "Pravda". A famous photograph of her at the original Hotel