Marcelino Bilbao

Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao
Born1920
Died2014
Allegiance Basque Country, Second Spanish Republic
RankLieutenant
Battles / warsVillarreal Offensive, Biscay Campaign, Battle of Santander, Asturias Offensive, Battle of Teruel, Battle of the Ebro, Aragon Offensive, Catalonia Offensive

Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao (1920–2014) was a Basque anarchist, Spanish Civil War veteran and Holocaust survivor.

Biography

When he was 16 he joined the Isaac Puente battalion of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), and he participated in the 1937 Battle of Teruel and the 1938 Battle of the Ebro. After the war, he was placed in the Austrian Mauthausen concentration camp and the Ebensee concentration camp run by Nazi Germany. He was subject to human experimentation by SS doctor Aribert Heim. After his liberation by Allied soldiers, he lived the rest of his life in France.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Razola, Manuel; Constante, Mariano; Serrano, Patricio (1969). Triangle bleu: les républicains espagnols à Mauthausen, 1940-1945. Gallimard. p. 41. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. ^ "Muere Marcelino Bilbao, la última víctima de los experimentos nazis en Mauthausen" (in Spanish). ABC. 26 January 2014. Archived from the original on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

Further reading

  • Galparsoro, Etxahun (2020). Bilbao en Mauthausen: memorias de un deportado vasco (in Spanish). Crítica. ISBN 9788491991786.
  • Martínez Robles, Felipe (1999). Des Brigades Internationales au camp de Mauthausen (in French). Association Rememot.
  • Romaña Arteaga, José Miguel (1988). La Segunda Guerra Mundial y los vascos (in Spanish). Ediciones Mensajero. ISBN 9788427115293.