Víctor Pey: Difference between revisions

 

He was born in [[Madrid]], the son of writer and priest [[Segismundo Pey Ordeix]], and Manuela Casado, from Valladolid.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Galvez |first1=Julio |title=Winnipeg: Testimonios de un exilio |date=2014 |publisher=Renacimiento |isbn=978-84-16246-00-7 |page=288}}</ref> At the age of two, he moved with his family to [[Barcelona]]. During the [[Spanish Civil War]], he fought on the Republican side and was a member to the [[Durruti Column]]. He formed part of the Spanish government in exile as a technical advisor to the War Industries Commission of Catalonia. He crossed the Pyrenees into France on 25 January 1939, was interned by French authorities and sent to a prison camp at [[Perpignan]].<ref name="cumple">{{cite news |last1=Ekaiser |first1=Ernesto |title=Víctor cumple 100 años |url=https://elpais.com/elpais/2015/08/30/opinion/1440952135_849222.html |accessdate=9 October 2018 |work=[[El Pais]] |date=29 August 2015}}</ref> In September 1939, [[Pablo Neruda]] arranged that Pey and his family board the [[SS Winnipeg]] for Chile.<ref name="mostrador">{{cite news |title=Adiós a un histórico en un día emblemático: a los 103 años fallece Víctor Pey, dueño de El Clarín |url=http://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/pais/2018/10/05/adios-a-un-historico-a-los-103-anos-fallece-victor-pey-dueno-de-el-clarin/ |accessdate=9 October 2018 |work=El Mostrador |date=5 October 2018}}</ref>

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