Anastasia Dumange
Buenaventura Durruti's mother
Anastasia Dumange Soler (1876–1968) was the mother of the anarchist revolutionary Buenaventura Durruti. Born in León to Catalan parents, she married Santiago Durruti, with whom she had eight children (including Buenaventura, Pedro and Rosa). After the suppression of a strike which her husband had led, her father lost his business and the family fell into poverty. Over the course of the 1920s and early 1930s, Dumange struggled with continuous news of her son's illicit activities and his multiple imprisonments. During the 1930s, she watched her husband and five of her children die in the social conflicts of the period. After the Spanish Civil War, she remained in León, where she continued to be a respected member of the community. Shortly before her death, she acted as a primary source on her son's early life, providing information for a biography on him written by Abel Paz.
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Early life and family
Anastasia Dumange Soler was born in León, in 1876. Her father, Pedro Dumange, was from a Catalan family from the province of Girona and had emigrated to the city for unknown reasons. After arriving in the city, he married a Catalan woman Rosa Soler.
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