Person - Bujanda Sarasola, Gerardo (1919-)
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Bujanda Sarasola, Gerardo (1919-)
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Donostia / San Sebastián (Gipuzkoa, España) 1919 - existente actualmente
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Spanish politician and anti-Franco activist clandestinely. Bujanda joined Eusko Gaztedi, a junior organization of the Basque National Party during the II Republic. During the Civil War, he fought at the republican side, concretely at the Saseta nationalist battalion. He was arrested in Santoña on 25th Augist 1937 along with his brother Inocencio, and imprisoned in the concentration camp of Laredo, where he got typhus, so he was set to the nursing home of Pontejos. Bujanda was imprisoned as well in the concentration camps of La Magdalena and Miranda de Ebro, doing rough works until the Civil War was ended. In 1941 he was called up to fight, so he stayed for three years and a half in Tzelatza de Anyera, in the Spanish colonies at Northern Africa.
When Bujanda came back to Donostia in 1946, he balanced his post as an administrative assistant at Victoriano Luzuriaga enterprise with the presidency of PNV clandestinely, under Juan Ajuriaguerra, Jesús Solaun and José María Lasasrte Aranas' orders. During several years, under the pseudonym Jon de Igeldo, Bujanda reported what was happening in the Basque Country during the dictatorship at Radio Euzkadi of Venezuela, a pirate radio station between 1965 and 1977. With the advent of Democracy, Bujanda was deputy of PNV for Guipuzkoa at the Congress in the 1977 constituent elections and 1979 elections. On May 1979, he was appointed member of Guipuzkoa Buru Batzar of PNV.
Date of the event: 1977-07-13 - 1979-01-02
Date of the event: 1936 - 1939
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