Testimony of Carmen Rodríguez Campoamor, interview with Scott Boehm and Miriam Duarte; April 20, 2009
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Rodríguez Campoamor, Carmen 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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Rodríguez Campoamor, Carmen
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Rodríguez Campoamor was born in Madrid on September 12, 1920. Her father was a laborer and a member of the Communist Party. He fought on the republican side and died during the Spanish Civil War. Carmen joined the Communist Party at the age of sixteen. After the war she engaged in underground political work. She was detained and spent a month and a half at Ventas, a prison for women. Her husband was detained later and was incarcerated for seven years, finally released in 1959. Her daughter was detained twice: the first time when she was only seventeen having protested for her father's release, for which she was expelled from her university. The second time she was arrested the daughter was incarcerated at Carabanchel. Rodríguez still attends Communist Party meetings Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Interviews in Spanish Rodríguez's testimony was recorded in Madrid Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship Rodríguez Campoamor, Carmen. 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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3 video files : digital, sound, color
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Spanish; Castilian
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Personal narratives-Spanish Communism Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) Political prisoners Interviews Nonfiction films History Oral history Ventas (Prison : Madrid, Spain) Cárcel de Carabanchel (Madrid, Spain) Partido Comunista de España Spain Madrid (Spain)
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