20/04/2025
Norwich, GB 15 C
Researching and reporting on the lives of some really interesting people (RIP)

ANGELES FLOREZ PEON, aged 105

Spurred into socialism by the murder of a brother, she was one of the few women to be actively involved in the Spanish Civil War, being imprisoned and tortured.

ANNE BEAUMANOIR, aged 98

Active in the French Resistance, she saved a number of children. She was then involved in the Algerian Civil War and eventually became a leading neurologist.

JUSTO GALLEGO, aged 96

A former Trappist monk he rebuilt a church destroyed in the Spanish Civil War – but he kept going and it became a cathedral, made of scrap