Georgette Léontine Roberte Augustine Kokoczinski

French anarchist, actress and nurse. At the age of 16, unable to get on with her parents any longer, she left for Paris where she was taken in by André Colomer and his partner Magdalena who introduced her to libertarian ideas. She frequented the cabarets in Montmartre and was attracted to show business and poetry.

When she was 16 years old, unable to get along with her parents, she left for Paris, where she was taken in by André Colomer and his partner Magdalena, who introduced her to libertarian ideas. She frequented the cabarets of Montmartre, drawn to the world of spectacle and poetry. Starting in 1925, she participated in the "Éducation Sociale" group, where she began to speak at rallies and festivals. She also took part in libertarian gatherings at La Revue Anarchiste; the manager was her partner Fortin. In those years, she earned her nursing diploma.

In 1928 she started using the stage name Mimosa as part of a theatre group that added colour to libertarian meetings and festivals in the area through singing, poetry readings and staging dramas.

On November 7, 1931, she married in Colombes (Île-de-France, France) the French socialist journalist Miecsejslaw Kokoczynski, affiliated with the 14th Paris Sector of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), from whom she took her surname. On August 28, 1936, she participated in a rally in the Wagram hall in Paris in support of the Spanish Revolution and decided to get more directly involved.

On September 18, 1936, she left to fight in the Spanish Civil War and enlisted in the International Group of the Durruti Column. Sent to the Aragon front, she worked with the German anarchist militants Augusta Marx and Madeleine Gierth in the infirmary and the canteen. Georgette Kokoczynski died on October 16, 1936, during the battle of Perdiguera (Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain), along with other nurses and dozens of foreign volunteers.

She disappeared on October 16 during the Battle of Perdiguera (Zaragoza) and died the same day (or on Oct. 17), possibly shot by firing squad, in circumstances that are not entirely clear but it seems she was captured by Franco's troops, shot along with other comrades, and, according to certain witnesses, her body was burned on a farm.