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Victòria Pujolar Amat

Victòria Pujolar Amat

1921–2017

Nationality
Spain
Occupation
painter

Victòria Pujolar Amat (26 July 1921 – 24 June 2017) was a Spanish Republican activist and member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia.

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Victòria Pujolar Amat (26 July 1921 – 24 June 2017) was a Spanish Republican activist and member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia. Subject to reprisals by Franco's regime, she suffered torture, imprisonment and exile. She lived in France, Czechoslovakia and Romania. She never gave up the political struggle and was the first voice in Catalan on the clandestine Radio España Independiente, popularly known as La Pirenaica, based in Bucharest. She was also a sportswoman and painter.

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