Government Declares Two Spanish Islands as a Place of Democratic Memory
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The Government notes that more than 500 people died, in addition to those who were shot and 'passed'.The Government declares Meirás as a place of democratic memory San Simón and Santo Antón, two small islands at the bottom of the Vigo estuary used by Franco as a concentration camp and as a residence of the guards, are already formally places of democratic memory.There, between 1936, they passed with the war still underway, and 1943 some 5,600 pr…
The Official Gazette of the State (BOE) publishes on Friday the declaration of the islands of San Simón and San Antón, located in the estuary of Vigo, as a place of Democratic Memory. The resolution, processed under the Memory Act, states that both islands, located in the municipality of Pontevedrés de Redondela, were used as a criminal during the Civil War and in the first years of the Franco dictatorship. The official publication recalls that …
They were used as a penalty by the rebels during the war and the first years of the dictatorship.
The government has declared the illes de San Simón i San Antón, a la ria de Vigo, com a Lloc de Memòria Democràtica. In aquetes illes, hi va haver un camp de concentració francista entre octubre de 1936 i març de 1943, i hi van passar més de 5,600 republicans prisoners.
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The Spanish Government declared this Friday, August 21, the islands of San Simono and Santo Antón, located in Redondela (Pontevedra), as a place of [...]
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