José Ester Borrás Papers
Period 1925-1980 (-1993)
Total size 2.87
m.
ConsultationNot restricted
Biography
Ester Borras, José: born in Berga, Spain 1913, died in Alès, France 1980; trade unionist and campaigner for political prisoners; active in the Spanish anarchist youth movement; fought in the Colonna Tierra y Libertad during the Spanish Civil War; was arrested by the communists; fled to France in 1939; participated in the French resistance against the Nazis; was arrested and deported to the concentration camp Mauthausen; returned to France in 1945; as one of the founders and moving spirit of FEDIP, Ester campaigned for political prisoners in Franco's Spain, for former political prisoners in German concentration camps and for imprisoned Spanish republicans in the Soviet Union; also active in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) in exile.
Content
Personal correspondence 1937, 1939-1952, 1957-1961; identity cards and other personal documents 1931, 1937, 1945-1947, 1952 and n.d.; typescript of `Recuerdos y Reflejos', first chapter of his autobiography 1942; documents on the French resistance and the liberation of Paris 1941, 1945-1946, 1948, 1959, 1966 and n.d.; documents from his wife Odette Ester-Kervorc'k 1976-1992 and n.d.
CNT in exile: minutes of meetings 1948-1949; correspondence with A. Germinal Esgleas of the Movimiento Libertario Español (MLE) 1947-1948 and correspondence with Marcelino Massana 1951-1952, José Peirats 1951 and n.d., Roque Santamaria 1951-1952 and others 1945-1974; files concerning persons, including Juan Cazorla Pedrero 1952-1954; Luis Companys 1934, 1936, 1940, 1969-1970; Guillermo Farregut Castells 1950 and n.d.; A. Florentino Estallo 1952-1955; Gabriel Garcia Tomas 1949-1950; Manuel Mendez de Vigo y Cubas n.d.; Quintin Sanchez 1952; Francisco Sanz 1950 and n.d.; Felipe Torrente Larrosa 1952-1953; files on the weekly Ruta of the Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL) in France 1953, on interventions in behalf of prisoners in Spain and France 1946-1947, 1949, 1952, on the exile of inhabitants from Berga in France 1947-1951-1953, 1957-1960, 1966 and other subjects; reports, notes and other documents concerning the CNT 1946-1952, 1966 and n.d.; typescripts of articles by J. Ester 1941, 1943; printed material, including photocopies of newspaper articles by Albert Camus on the Franco regime in Spain 1948-1953, 1957, 1959, 1961-1962, 1964-1966 and n.d.
Processing information
Inventory made by Tiny de Boer in 2002