Eduard Pons Prades
Spanish writer
Eduard Pons Prades (1920 – 2007) was a Catalan, fighter, historian and journalist. He fought in the Spanish Civil War and French resistance, and went on to write several history books about both conflicts.
Biography
Eduard Pons Prades was born in 1920. He was the son of Valencian trade unionists from Horta Nord, who had settled in Barcelona. Pons worked in the wood industry, which was collectivised at the outset of the Spanish Revolution of 1936. At the age of 16, he volunteered to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He fought in the siege of Madrid and the battle of the Ebro, and in 1938, he was wounded during the Catalonia Offensive.
In early 1939, as the Nationalists advanced through Catalonia, Pons put together a team to evacuate 20,000 wounded people from Spain. When he arrived in France and told the authorities that the Nationalists had murdered wounded Republicans in their hospital beds, he was met with disbelief. In the French concentration camps where Spanish refugees were interned, Pons reported that disease spread rapidly, with many internees suffering from dysentery, pneumonia, scabies or mental disorders.
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