Thursday 21 in January 18.30 we present a new conference via Zoom on historical memory. In this case, the title is "Franco's concentration camps and slave labor". The talk, by historian Oriol Dueñas, will be subtitled “Forced Worker Battalions (1938-1942)».
Linking to the talk on the International Brigades, we will talk about another rather little-known aspect of the contemporary history of Catalonia and Spain. Because everyone knows that Franco's repression was cruel, systematic and lasting, but some facts are gradually known even today. For this reason, we want to talk about the Francoist concentration camps and the many people sentenced to forced labor in the early years of the regime.
To participate in the conference, Catalan with Spanish interpretation, you need to write us an email at our usual address. we want to talk about the Francoist concentration camps and the many people sentenced to forced labor in the early years of the regime.
The author
Oriol Dueñas Iturbe (Barcelona, 1977) He holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Barcelona University and associate professor in the Department of History and Archeology at the University of Barcelona. He is currently the Content and Project Management Technician at Democratic Memorial the Government of Catalonia. Civil War Specialist, exile and Franco’s repression, he is the author of various articles and books The violence of each other. Repression during the war and the postwar period in Olesa de Montserrat 1936-1945 (Publications of the Abbey of Montserrat 2007); Franco's slaves (Now Books 2008, together with Queralt Solé); The judge of the clandestine cemeteries. Josep Maria Bertran de Quintana (1884-1960) (Gregal 2012); The great destruction. The damage of the Civil War in Catalonia 1936-1957. (Labrador 2016); The port of Barcelona: military target during the Civil War (1936-1939), and Carme Ballester, commitment, resistance and loneliness (Gregal 2018).
