SEGOVIA, Oct 17 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Municipality of Segovia organized, together with the Forum for the memory of Segovia, the series of conferences “Books for the memory”. Thus, the Creation Center-Prison will host during the rest of the year a series of monthly conferences by authors of books linked to the memory of Franco’s repression.
This was announced by the councilor for democratic memory, Ana Peñalosa, and the historian Juan Carlos García Funes. Both indicated that the cycle will continue throughout 2023 with multiple monthly conferences from various authors. All are freely accessible up to full capacity.
In this sense, Peñalosa encouraged citizens to participate and participate in these talks, with whom he wants to “continue to claim” memory, justice and reparation for the victims of Francoism, as well as publicizing historical episodes of the civil war and the post-war period.
“The association is very happy to be able to say that with the collaboration of the City Council it will be possible to continue to investigate what it has been asking for for some time, since 2002 when the association began to be established to fight for the rights of truth, justice and reparation for the victims of Francoism “, said García Fuentes.
Three conferences are scheduled until the end of the year: the first by the Pamplonanese author Fermín Ezkieta Yaben, the second by the Madrid historian Ana Martínez Rus and, in third place, the writer Miguel Martínez del Arco.
“In this case, with the cycle of conferences ‘Libros para la Memoria’, if it goes well, there will also be a monthly appointment in 2023 in which Segovian men and women, some who know the problems, but for many and for many young generations who are not so much for facts and often completely unknown protagonists in recent history, not only Spaniards but Segovians “, he explained.
THREE LESSONS
The first of the acts will feature the original Pamplona author Fermín Ezkieta Yaben, with his work “The Fugitives from the Fort of Ezkaba”. It will be Thursday 20 October, in Sala Ex. Presa 2, at 19:00.
The book talks about the escape from the fort of San Cristóbal, in Ezkaba (Pamplona), which occurred on May 22, 1938. Of the 795 documented escapes, 206 were killed in the mountains. Among those captured, 14 were shot as “promoters” and another 45 died in the fort in the following years.
“In this escape, it is said that 48 percent of the nearly 800 fugitives were Castilian-Leonese. Among them were 76 Segovians, of whom 18 died during the escape, three others were shot and seven others died in the fort until 1943. “, explained the historian.
The second conference will take place on November 24 in the Julio Michel room, starting at 7pm. On this occasion, the Madrid historian Ana Martínez Rus will talk about her work “Burning books and forbidden reading: Franco’s bibliocaust (1936-1948)”.
In this work the author analyzes the destruction of the Spanish bibliographic heritage by the Francoists during the civil war and the first post-war period.
On December 14, the Julio Michel Room will host a new conference, again at 19:00. Miguel Martínez del Arco will present his novel ‘Memoria del Frío’.
The work follows in the footsteps of his mother, Manolita del Arco, through a story in which Heriberto Quiñones, Carlos Arias Navarro, Dolores Ibárruri, Doctor López Ibor, Julián Grimau and Luis Martín-Santos appear as characters.
It begins with the Casado coup in March 1939 and ends under siege in 1976, with a group of irreducible elderly people celebrating life.
