Casilda Hernáez

Soledad Kasilda Hernáez Vargas (9 April 1914 – 31 August 1992) was a Basque anarchist militant who fought in the Spanish Civil War. An anarchist from an early age, during the time of the Spanish Republic, she was a prominent participant in the Basque anarchist movement, being imprisoned for her role in the Revolution of 1934. With the outbreak of civil war, she fought within the confederal militias, transferring to the Aragon front after the nationalists won the War in the North. After the Republic's defeat, she went into exile in France, where she supported the French Resistance, Spanish Maquis and eventually ETA.

Biography Hernáez was born to an unmarried mother and unknown father in the Fraisoro de Zizurkil cradle house. Her grandmother was a calé, and her anarchist uncles influenced her early libertarian initiation. She grew up in the San Sebastián neighbourhood of , where she learned to read and write at the Atocha public school.

Following the proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic, she joined the Libertarian Youth and attended the libertarian athenaeums, which became a second school for her. Her practice of nudism on beach also caused a scandal at the time.

In 2022 the documentary Casilda, el eco de otros pasos, by director Juan Felipe, deals with the figure of Hernáez. This year also saw the publication of the graphic novel Casilda revolucionaria by Rubén Uceda Villanueva, which narrates her life in the first person.