Vicente Parra Bordetas

Vicente Parra Bordetas (1886 - 1967) was one of the directors of the 'Varsovie' Hospital in Toulouse, created by the Spanish Republicans at the end of the Second World War. He graduated in medicine in 1908 and worked as a rural doctor in the province of Toledo and in Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, he served in the Republican Guardias de Asalto, and in 1939, when the war ended, he went to France with ‘La Retirada’. Arrested by the Vichy police in 1943, he was interned in the disciplinary camp of Le Vernet Internment Camp (Ariège) and from there he was taken by the Germans to Dachau on the "Ghost Train" in July-August 1944. After the liberation of Dachau, and his time as Director of the ‘Varsovie’ Hospital, he went into exile in Caracas, where he would live until his death in 1967.

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