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Arsenio Jimeno was born in Fuentes de Jiloca Zaragoza October - Zaragoza . From a family of artisans and farmers he studied as an industrial technician in Zaragoza and Terrassa. At the age of eighteen in the midst of the Primo de Rivera Dictatorship he joined the PSOE and UGT and years later was elected member of the PSOE National Committee. In these first years of the Republic he was president of the Zaragoza provincial Federation of Socialist Youth. He is a candidate for deputy for the Huesca constituency in November of this year. In he suffered his first exile in France where he remained until the year in which he returned to Zaragoza where the coup d'état surprised him; He was able to leave the city at the end of this year.



Incorporated into Republican Aragon he was appointed Minister of Public Instruction of the Council of Aragon established in Caspe. During that time since June he directed the newspaper El Día the organ of the Popular Front of Aragon of which UAE Phone Number he was president. Once the Council was dissolved he joined the Army as a battalion commissioner and finally went to France in February . In this country under the German occupation he acted as general secretary of the clandestine PSOE simultaneously holding the same position in the UGT since then he has not He stopped belonging to the national leadership of both organizations in exile.





A serious operation that deprived him of his pharynx put an end to his political and union activity. Upon his return to Spain he was elected president of the established Socialist Party in Aragon and was also elected honorary president of the Socialist Youth of Aragon. Let's now talk about the book "Zaragoza in the storm. Memory of a survivor." As we have just seen his fighting personality and desire to show the world his vision of socialism explains well the tone of Zaragoza in the storm which on the other hand has nothing to do with the usual autobiographies since it does not follow the classical structures. of memoir books nor the immediate objectives – although the psychological ones – that usually accompany them.