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It was in the auditorium of the Maison de l’eau et de la Méditerranée, a room very well suited to this kind of conference and debate, that the film was screened, directed by Montsé Armengou Martín, director at TV3 Catalunya, The lost children of Francoism. Troubled period of the Spanish Civil War and of Franco’s Spain, this document composed of newsreels, court documents, historical analyzes by historians, testimonies… examines the different aspects, forced displacements, disappearances, including the children of the so-called Republicans, the Reds, were victims. It took about sixty years for tongues to loosen in this country still marked by an inglorious period. After the screening and some analyses, it was Professor Unai Eguía’s turn to present his historical research on Enric Moner, born in Figueras, smuggler in Maureillas, who would meet a tragic fate as he was deported and shot in Hradischko.
Married to Boulou, he will be denounced by the collaborationist interpreter Edwige Schoher, nicknamed the tigress of Boulou. Very detailed, this epic of Enric Moner interested the assistance among which one counted some descendants. The trans-Pyrenees cultural and republican days continue this friday june 17, at 6 p.m., by Jean Dauriach’s conference “In the crash of the trucks, equipment and car camps of the Spanish Republicans in the Pyrénées-Orientales 1936-1940” at the city’s media library. Then, Saturday June 18 at 7 p.m., closing concert of the said cultural days by the Vocal Ensemble of Bages and Villeneuve-de-la-Raho at the Maison de l’histoire.
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