Colette Durruti Morin was a Spanish-French businesswoman and activist. The daughter of the Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti and the French anarchist Émilienne Morin, she grew up in poverty and c
A young Colette, held by her father Buenaventura Durruti, together with her mother Émilienne Morin
Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish anarchist revolutionary and leader of the confederal militias during the Spanish Civil War, was fatally shot on 19 November 1936 during the battle of Ciudad Universitar
Colette Durruti
…Civil War, Durruti's parents went to fight on the Aragon front and left her in the care of Margaleff. She was only five years old when her father was killed in action, but she remembered him affectionately. Her father's friend Joan Garcia Oliver held Durruti up as an example of "all the children whose parents have…
Durruti's body lying in state at Via Laietana
Buenaventura Durruti, during the early months of the Spanish Civil War in 1936
Funeral procession with Durruti's coffin, on 23 November 1936
Durruti's gravestone in Montjuïc Cemetery