안중근 家 여성의 독립운동에 관한 연구―조마리아⋅안성녀⋅오항선을 중심으로―

Abstract

This study was to focus on the female independence movement in Ahn Jung-geun’s family Three female patriots in Ahn Jung-geun’s family whom this researcher noted, are the mother, brother and daughter-in-law of independence activists who practiced the independence movement. Ahn Jung-geun’s mother, Maria Cho, younger sister Ahn Seong-nyeo, and daughter-in-law Oh Hang-seon practiced the consciousness of national salvation against Japanese invasion as an independence movement and joined the independence movement. In addition, he was an executor who continued the spirit of independence beyond the role of a simple assistant in the battlefield of independence movement together with the men from National Debt Redemption Movement to 3.1 Movement in Manchu and Shanghai, Chongqing and Xian, and Primorskii Krai, etc. Ahn Jung-geun’s mother, Maria Cho, participated in the women’s association for the jewelry and recycled paper in Samhwa port after contributing the relief fund for National Debt Redemption in Hwanghae province, and supply with clothes and food from outside the prison to Ahn Jung-geun and independence movement in Manchu, Primorskii Krai and Shanghai. Ahn Jung-geun’s younger sister, Ahn Seong-nyeo, raised independent funds in Hwanghae province, Manchu and Harbin, etc., supported the production of independent military uniforms, and practiced the independence movement specialized as women’s sewing forces. Oh Hang-seon as a daughter-in-law in Ahn Jung-geun’s family served as a subordinate of General Kim Jwa-jin and engaged in the responsibility for liaison activities for weapons carriage on the battlefield of Independence Army. From the result of this research above, it may be summed up as follows. First, Ahn Jung-geun’s family female independence activists were executors of independence movement who inherited the spirit of independence under the course of Korean modern and contemporary history. Second, the changes in activities of women in Ahn Jung-geun’s family started with the awareness of the ethnic community and started to practice the independence movement based on the perception on the equal rights for both sexes and consciousness of anti-Japanese struggle. Third, the female independence movement in Ahn Jung-geun’s family confirms the changes in activities and process of growth for the women in the independence activist family. To conclude, this researcher considers it as it needs to focus on the women’s activities in the independence activist family and review the acknowledgment scope, standards, and tasks of further excavation of female independence activists through the cases of the female independence movement in Ahn Jung-geun’s family.