Amado Hernández Pascual
Amado Hernández Pascual, was a master, painter, prominent communist and Esperantista, who was born in Argujillo (Zamora) on May 18, 1906 and died shot probably on August 12, 1936 in the area of Toro (Zamora). Biography
From a family of well-off farmers in the Zamorano town of Argujillo, son Juan Hernández Domínguez and Castora Pascual Alonso. He studied at the School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving of San Fernando de Henares (Madrid), there he made several exhibitions and began to be interested in Esperanto.
He returned to Zamora in 1930 and studied Magisterio, in the Normal School of Teachers of Zamora, locating his place of residence in that city. He is part of the PCE Zamorano Communist Radio, assuming the presidency of the latter in the constitution act of 1932. He works together with other Zamoran Marxists such as Antonio Pertejo Seseña, Engracia del Río, José Ferrero, José Dates, Felipe Anciones and Mariano Quintanilla.
Participated in the creation of the Professional Association of Students Zamoranos (APEZ) in April 1931 belonging to the University School Federation (FUE), which will carry out numerous cultural and ideological activities until July 1936 through the Popular University (Zamora ).
He is part of the esperantist group of the city, giving classes of diffusion and publishing texts of this international language. In his native town, especially in the summers, he gives free literacy classes to some neighbors (mainly young people) who have limited cultural notions. He also disseminates Esperantist ideas among his neighbors. He participates actively in the political life of the people (as witness his writings in the Zamorano workers' newspapers of the time: "La Tarde" and "La voz del trabajo").
He is arrested in Argujillo a few days after the Civil War broke out, and is transferred to the Toro prison along with other neighbors of the town. It appears as the date of his death in the book of records of the Toresano penitentiary on August 12, 1936, victim of one of the frequent "sacks." Bibliography
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