Liberto Sarrau Papers
Period 1943-2001 (-2006)
Total size 1.87 m.
Consultation Not restricted
Biography
Liberto Sarrau Royes: anarchist, was born in Fraga, Spain 1917, died in Paris 2001; born into an anarchist family; attended a school in Barcelona ran by the textile syndicat of the CNT; formed an anarchist youth group 1936; fought in the civil war in 1937; fled to France 1939; lived in Morocco and France; caught in 1948 while conducting anti-franquist agitation in Spain and sentenced to twenty years of imprisonment; fled again to France during a probational leave in 1958; tried to organize actions in Spain and revive the anarchist organizations; active in the Movimento Popular de Resistencia (MPR); worked as journalist for papers of the CNT in exile; co-founder of the Asociacion Cultural y Ecologica 'Natura'(ACEN), which aimed at establishing a permanent libertarian summer camp Mon-Nou (New World) in the Pyrenees.
Joaquina Dorado Pita: born in La Coruá 1917; moved to Barcelona in 1934; member of the carpenters' and upholsterers syndicate; involved in the resistance against Franco; fled to France 1939; participated in reconstructing the anarchist syndicats in France, together with Liberto Sarrau; conducted anti-franquist agitation in Spain; caught and imprisoned; provisionally released in 1949 but caught again in 1950; finally released in 1954; lives in France and since 1990 alternately in Barcelona.
Content
Papers of Liberto Sarrau Royes: correspondence 1943-1999; documents concerning the MPR 1958-1964, theatre and film projects 1970, ACEN and MON-NOU 1989-1995, CNT and FAI 1946, 1989; manuscripts and articles by Liberto Sarrau; documentation, copies of 'Obra Mercedaria', magazine for (political) prisoners 1947-1952, of 'Boletin de Informacion' of the MPR, of Bulletin d'information of CARE (Comité d'Aide de la Resistance Espagnol).
Papers of Joaquina Dorado Pita: correspondence 1958-2001.
Copies of letters from Raúl Carballeira to Liberto Sarrau, written in 1943-1947 and annotated by Antonia Fontanillas 2005-2006.
'Ciclo Inaugural' with biographies of Joaquina Dorado and Liberto Sarrau, issued by the Centro de Estudos Libertários in Lissabon 2005.
6. Ciclo. Reader for the meetings of the Circulo Joaquina Dorado e Liberto Sarrau in 2010.
Processing information
Inventory made by Bernard Mantel in 2003