Person
Martínez Roca, Manuel (1920-?)
Barcelona (España) 1920-01-26 - desconocida
Spanish publisher that exiled in Mexico. Son of Juan Martínez Costa and Carmen Roca Barau, and brother of Francisco Martínez Roca. He carried out his basic studies in the French School of Barcelona, and was member of the General Union of Workers (UGT) and the Unified Socialist Youth (JSU).
When the Spanish Civil War started, he joined the Spanish Republican Army as militiaman administrative officer and instructor of the JSU (30th Division and 127th Mixed Brigade). He first exiled in France and was sent to Saint Cyprien and Fort Collioure concentration camps. Afterwards, he went to Mexico from Bordeaux on board "Cuba" ship. With the help of the "Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos Españoles" (JARE), he settled in San Cristóbal de las Casas for 8 months, where he had small jobs of French teacher and typist for the "Departamento de Asuntos Indígenas". He worked for more than 20 years in Juan Grijalbo's publishing house as assistant and manager.
Later on, he co-founded Ediciones MartínezRoca S.A. publishing house along with his brother Francisco Martínez Roca in 1965. As time passed, Martínez Roca family and their inheritors arranged to equally sale the company shares: 50% of the shares went to Manuel Martínez Roca, and the other 50% to his nephews Manuel Martínez Alsinet and Carmen Martínez Alsinet (son and daughter of co-founder Francisco).
Description: Expedición que parte de Burdeos (Francia). Llega primero a Santo Domingo (República Dominicana) y luego a Coatzacoalcos (México) en julio de 1940.
Date of the event: 1940-07-01
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Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
. Pla Brugat, Dolores. Catálogo del fondo de historia oral : refugiados españoles en México : Archivo de la Palabra. 1ª ed.. Dolores Pla Brugat (coordinadora). México D.F.: Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. 2011. 1 CD-ROM. 978-607-484-184-8.
Martínez Roca, Manuel. Alonso, Marisol. Tuñon, Enriqueta. Proyecto de Historia Oral "Refugiados Españoles en México", Archivo de la Palabra, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), México : entevista realizada a Manuel Martínez Roca. por Marisol Alonso ; anexo Realizado por Enriqueta Tuñón [para el Instituto Nacional de Antropología E Historia de México En Colaboración Con el Ministerio de Cultura de España]. [s.L.: S.N.]: 1981]. 177 P..