Juan Marichal
Juan Marichal was born on February 2, 1922, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the Canary Islands. In 1935 his father was transferred to Madrid, where Juan’s uncle, Domingo Perez Trujillo, was serving as the Socialist representative for the municipality of Puerto de la Cruz. With the onset of the Spanish Civil War, Juan accompanied his uncle to Valencia (the war capital of the Second Spanish Republic) and then Barcelona, but they were forced into exile and went to France in 1939. Juan began his studies in Paris, but the beginning of the Second World War and the threat of the German invasion forced him once again into exile with his brother Carlos and he moved to Casablanca, where he studied at a French lycee. In 1941 he traveled to Mexico on a ship leased by an organization that provided aid to Spanish Civil War exiles. He spent the next...