Julia Batino

Who is Julia Batino?

Julia Batino was a Macedonian Jewish antifascist and women's rights activist. She was made President of the Bitola WIZO 1934, an organization which was actively involved in the progressive women's movement in Yugoslavia, and Batino directed her energies towards the emancipation of Jewish women, particularly young women. Batino's connections to the Jewish community in Belgrade enabled her to send a certain number of Jewish girls from Bitola to work or study in Belgrade each year, among them Haim Estreya Ovadya, among the first women to join the partisan movement in 1941.