Hibe Palikuqi, participant of the Anti-Fascist National Liberation War, Heroine of the People, was killed during the war for the liberation of Kërçovë (today in North Macedonia). She was born in the city of Dibra, in 1927. Since 1942, her house became a base for anti-fascist illegals and she herself, was a propagandist of the ideas of the liberation war. She was arrested together with her mother and imprisoned (1943). After she got out of prison, she continued her anti-fascist activity. Member of the Albanian Communist Party in 1944. Joined the partisan battalion of Dibra and with the organization of the XVIII Assault Brigade was appointed deputy company commissar (1944). She was killed in the war against the German Nazis and collaborators in 1944. (In the photo: Hibe Palikuqi)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 1920.
Photo: © Xhoxhi L., personal archive.
Graphic processing: AHCF
