Navasfrías memory of the exiles

outcasts in Navasfrias

escudoNavasfriasExile was one of the consequences of repression in Navasfrías, that affected a dozen people identified, They are known better than in other towns, thanks to the excellent oral information, combined with file, although it certainly is much to be learned.

This applies to the "exiles" that affected two neighboring families navasfrieños, and evoked in "croniquillas" (27/11/2016). The case of Felix Gonzalez Alfonso (a) "Mosquitia" is exemplary double title, through the painstaking identification work over several decades, exposed in Franco Repression (2016: 40), and the impact of slaughter in the immediate family (ibid.: 129, 307).

Like so many others chosen for the sacrifice of this region mirobrigense, Felix had immigrated to France and had to return to his hometown before the Civil War, While family matters, according to the testimony of a granddaughter, o a consecuencia de la crisis económica en el país de acogida. was about 50 años, it was unionist, He was married and returned with three daughters, apparently.

When taking the uprising was arrested, "For not delivering a gun", and taken to an unknown destination in your area, it was in fact the judicial district jail, where it would be taken with other detainees, with whom he would be buried on the farm Tinkerbell (25/11/36).

Before Félix González had been gunned I navasfrieño resident in Moraleja, where he was married: Valentín Caballero Devesa. He was the father of four children, who have managed to preserve and transmit their memory, and their grandchildren, some in their place of origin and other immigrants.

initial, in early August 1936, Navasfrías repression focused on family León Almaraz Moreiro Republican mayor and his son Angel Ramos Navais, who was councilor and secretary of the local STT.

According oral testimonies, both benefited from the help of Braulio underhanded Manzano Aguilar, Brigade police and military commander of the place to elope to Portugal.

They collaborated in this work other convecinos, which in turn would be persecuted, but not certain if Agustín Cuevas, it would be one of those who gave shelter to the fugitives, He died of ill-treatment (N 2009).

 

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