Matías Arranz: Spanish Civil War veteran

Matías Arranz Aparicio was a Spaniard who fought for the Republic in the Spanish Civil War and survived four years in Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War. He dedicated his life to denouncing Fascism. Arranz was born in 1914 in Vadocondes, Burgos province, in northern Spain. When he was 19 he moved to Madrid, where the Spanish Second Republic had just replaced the Bourbon monarchy. He became a... [read full story]                    

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