On February 24 at 19.00 hours began the cycle of online talks about the Spanish victims of National Socialism. It was a luxury to have Benito Bermejo, historian and one of the axes of the recovery of the historical memory of the Spanish deportees, for this first activity.
Benito Bermejo published in 2006 together with Sandra Checa the "Libro Memorial. Españoles deportados a los campos nazis (1940-1945)", a reference work on this subject. Among other publications, he has dedicated a book to rescue the figure of Francisco Boix, Republican photographer and prisoner in the Mauthausen concentration camp, who managed to document the National Socialist extermination machinery.
On March 10 at 7 p.m. we continue with an event dedicated to the thousands of Republicans who, after the occupation of France by the National Socialists, were forced to perform forced labor for the Third Reich. With this event we wanted to recover the memory of this group, forgotten in Germany as well as in France and Spain. We have counted with the historian and curator of the exhibition Rotspanier, Antonio Muñoz Sánchez (Lisbon) and with the historian Anja Hasler (Bremen) who has researched the history of the Spanish forced laborers in the Bunker Valentin in Bremen.
We ended on March 24 at 19.00 with an event in which we talked about the recovery of memory with Juan Manuel Calvo Gascón, president of the Amical Mauthausen, Isabel Martínez and Jesús Rodríguez of the IB Stolpersteine and Nieves Cajal, niece of Miguel and Jesús Santos Alonso, deported to the concentration camp of Neuengamme.
The talks were moderated by Miguel Montero and Andrea Sánchez-Guijaldo on behalf of Werkstatt für Sozialforschung.
Here is a link to the recording of the activities of March 10 and 24:
