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Polita Grau (born Maria Leopoldina Grau-Alsina 19 November 1915–22 March 2000) was the First Lady of Cuba, a Cuban political prisoner, and the "godmother" of Operation Peter Pan, also known as Operación Pedro Pan, a program to help children leave Cuba.
Polita Grau (born Maria Leopoldina Grau-Alsina 19 November 1915–22 March 2000) was the First Lady of Cuba, a Cuban political prisoner, and the "godmother" of Operation Peter Pan, also known as Operación Pedro Pan, a program to help children leave Cuba.
Key players included Tracy Voorhees, Eisenhower Administration, James Baker, Father Walsh, and in Cuba Polita Grau and her brother Ramón Grau Alsina.
Grau, who was unmarried, appointed his niece, Polita Grau, as first lady during his first presidency. Serafina Diago Cárdenas was married to President Miguel Mariano Gómez, the son of former first lady, América Arias . Elisa Godinez Gomez was Batista's first wife and first lady from 1940 to 1944.
Jan 6, 2021 · Polita Grau, 84, who as a teenager served as Cuba’s first lady during her unmarried uncle’s reign and later spent 14 years in prison for conspiring with the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro, died of congestive heart March 22 at a nursing home here.Her uncle, Ramon Grau San Martin, was Cuba’s president in 1933 and 1934 and from 1944 to 1948.
Mar 24, 2000 · Polita Grau, 84, the former first lady of Cuba who later was a driving force in the “Peter Pan” movement, which encouraged parents to send their children out of Communist Cuba to live with...
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Mar 25, 2000 · MIAMI -- Polita Grau, 84, who as a teenager served as Cuba's first lady during her unmarried uncle's reign and later spent 14 years in prison for conspiring with the CIA to overthrow Fidel...
