Julián Arrondo

Spanish anarchist, anarcho-syndicalist and anti-fascist combatant. Born in Villafranca, Navarra, as a young man he moved to Barcelona, where he joined the Bonanova Joventuts Llibertàries. During the Civil War, he was a militiaman in the Durruti Column on the Aragon front. Escaping to France in February 1939, he was interned in various camps and joined one of the Compagnies de Travailleurs Étrangers. After his release, he became a forester on the Côte d'Or, settling in Dijon where he became the treasurer of the local fedartion of the MLE/CNT in exile, as well as treasurer of the Dijon-Nevers region.