Antònia Fontanillas Borràs (29 May 1917 – 23 September 2014) was a Spanish

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seamstress, anarcho-syndicalist, trade unionist, and militant anarchist from Palafrugell. She was a leader within various organizations including

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of Palafrugell, Solidaritat Internacional Antifeixista (SIA), and Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT). With her mother, she fled Catalonia in 1939, setting in Toulouse. She returned to Spain on several occasions, bringing propaganda, weapons, or money. Fontanillas died in

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in 2014.

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