Alfonsina Bueno

Alfonsina Bueno Vela (1915–1979) was a Spanish activist who joined the French Resistance in 1941 and became part of the Ponzán group. With her husband and daughter Angelina she ran a house helping airmen on escape lines. After being arrested by the Gestapo, she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany, under the Nacht und Nebel directive. Nazi doctors performed medical experiments upon her without her consent. Bueno's work in the resistance movement was celebrated by the British, French and US governments.

Early life Bueno was born on 26 January 1915 in Moros, in Aragon. Her family moved to Berga when she was young. She found employment in a spinning mill where she met her husband , an anarchist from Lleida. Together they had one child.

Resistance movement After World War II started, Bueno joined the French Resistance in 1941 and became part of the Ponzán group. With her daughter Angelina, she ran a house in Banyuls-sur-Mer, in France, which hosted maquis and helped airmen flee France and return to England with the help of the Pat O'Leary Line, an escape line. He was imprisoned in Toulouse and then Paris, where he was tortured.

The liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. The banner reads "Spanish anti-fascists salute the liberating forces" She was moved to Mauthausen concentration camp in March 1945, where she was reunited with her husband and freed in May 1945. The book Noche y niebla en los campos nazis, written by , records the internment experiences of Bueno and ten other women, including Elisa Garrido and Lise London. A mural in Berga commemorates Bueno's life.