League for Peace and Freedom. She pressed for adequate housing for families, as most of the available units had been given to soldiers; for not allowing children's protection to lose focus because of attention to the war effort; and for peace initiatives. At the end of World War II, she retired from public life to look after her son Paul, who had been wounded in the war. They lived in Point Chevalier. In 1946, Soljak's nationality was restored, when the New Zealand nationality law was finally revised to grant women individual nationality. In the letter from the Internal Affairs Minister, signed by under-secretary Joe Heenan, which responded to her request for restoration of her nationality, he stated, "you are deemed never to have lost your British nationality". Eventually, she rejoined the Labour Party and was given a gold badge of service for her work over many years. Death and legacy Soljak died in Auckland on 28 March 1971. She is remembered for her advocacy on behalf of working women and the Māori people, as well as her decades-long efforts to address gender discrimination in nationality laws. The Soljak family papers are housed in the Dalmatian Archive of the Auckland Council Libraries. Her son Philip became an author and her daughter Connie Purdue went on to become a leading name in the New Zealand anti-abortion movement. In 2020, Soljak was the subject of a series of mixed-media acrylic paintings, featured at the Waiheke Community Art Gallery as "Signed under Protest" and created by her granddaughter, Katy Soljak. Notes Footnotes Citations Bibliography 1879 births 1971 deaths 19th-century New Zealand women 20th-century New Zealand women politicians 20th-century New Zealand politicians New Zealand communists New Zealand pacifists New Zealand people of Irish descent New Zealand people of Scottish descent New Zealand socialist feminists New Zealand women's rights activists Pacifist feminists People from Hastings, New Zealand People from Thames, New Zealand Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people