Testimony of Emilio Peñafiel, interview with Scott Boehm and Miriam Duarte; February 10, 2009
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University of California, San Diego Peñafiel, Emilio Boehm, Scott Duarte, Miriam Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria
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Peñafiel, Emilio
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Peñafiel was born on Aug. 6, 1928. His father, who was a communist, worked as a taxi driver and machinist (lathe operator). His boyhood memories of the Civil War in the republican zone in Madrid are marked by hunger, fear and cold. He played marbles with grapeshot found in the street. Memories of sirens, fears of bombing raids, and witnessing aerial machine gunning were all part of his childhood. He began working at age fourteen, eventually associating with various international pharmaceutical companies, though he also worked with a door manufacturer and for a brief time as the manager of a bingo hall. A self-styled free thinker, he describes the difficulty with which he acquired through friends in Mexico or Argentina, books banned by the Franco regime. He associated with the CNT. Since retirement at age seventy he remains severely critical of gloabal capitalism Peñafiel nació el 6 de Agosto de 1928. Su padre era comunista y trabajaba como taxista y también como tornero. Sus recuerdos de infancia de la Guerra Civil en la zona republicana de Madrid están marcados por el hambre, el miedo y el frío que soportó en esos tiempos. Usaba metralla que encontraba en la calle para jugar a las canicas. De niño experimentó las sirenas, los bombardeos y las ametralladoras aéreas de primera mano. Comenzó a trabajar a los catorce años, eventualmente asociándose con varias compañías farmacéuticas internacionales, aunque también trabajó con un fabricante de puertas y por un tiempo como gerente de una sala de bingo. Autoproclamado librepensador, describe la dificultad con la que adquirió libros prohibidos por el franquismo a través de amigos en México o Argentina. Se asoció con la CNT. Desde que se jubiló a los setenta años, se ha mantenido intensamente crítico con el capitalismo global. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Penafiel's testimony was recorded in Madrid Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship Interviews in Spanish Peñafiel, Emilio. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2009 Madrid, Spain, Spanish Civil War Memory Project
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moving image
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2 video files : digital, sound, color
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ark:/20775/bb0035182b
Language
Spanish
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Communism Interviews Oral history History Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) Nonfiction films Personal narratives-Spanish Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (Spain) Spain Argentina Madrid (Spain)
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