Josefa Llanes Escoda, founder of the Girl Scout of the Philippines , is executed together with other Filipinos who have resisted Japanese Occupation during World War II, January 31, 1945.
Great civic leader, social worker, suffragette and war heroine, Pepa, as she was affectionately called, was born on September 20, 1898 in Dingras, Ilocos Norte.
She was last seen on January 29, 1945. She was then apparently taken and held in one of the Far Eastern University buildings occupied by the Japanese...
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