Mara Naceva

Mara Naceva (; 28 September 1920 – 1 July 2013) was a Macedonian communist and partisan. She was awarded the Order of the People's Hero on 29 November 1953. She was the last surviving ethnic Macedonian recipient of this medal.

Biography Naceva was born on September 28, 1920, in Kumanovo. She finished primary school in her hometown. At the age of 15, she became a textile worker. In 1936, she led a strike at her factory, for which she was fired. She became a member of the Young Communist League of Yugoslavia.

In 1939, she left for Niš and became a member of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. A year later, Naceva became a member of the Local Committee and the District Committee of the CPY of Niš, and was arrested twice. She participated during the fifth ground conference of the CPY in Zagreb as a delegate from Serbia.

After the occupation of Yugoslavia, Naceva was a member of the Regional Committee of Communists in Macedonia. In the summer of 1942, she was arrested by Bulgarian police and was sent to a camp for women near Asenovgrad. Fellow party member Strašo Pindžur tried to find ways to release his friend Mara Naceva from prison.

In March 1943, she was elected organizational secretary of the Communist Party of Macedonia in absentia.

Naceva was ordained with the Order of National Liberation and the Order of the People's Hero.

She died in Kumanovo on 1 July 2013, where she is buried.