Testimony of Adela Salas Castillejos, interview with Scott Boehm and Jessica Plautz; March 5, 2009
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Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria Boehm, Scott Plautz, Jessica Salas Castillejos, Adela University of California, San Diego
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Salas Castillejos, Adela
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Salas nació en 1925 en Madrid. Su padre era zapatero y su madre lavaba ropa para aumentar los ingresos familiares. Aunque de familia pobre, Adela dice que su infancia en el Madrid de antes de la guerra fue muy feliz. Esto cambió drásticamente con la Guerra Civil. Describe el horror de los bombardeos aéreos en la "zona roja" donde vivía en Madrid, incluido un caso en el que una bomba alcanzó su edificio. Su tío Andrés Castillejos era socialista y fue detenido y enviado a un campo de concentración después de la guerra. Adela empezó a trabajar en una zapatería a los quince años. Recuerda la represión social del franquismo en una anécdota sobre cómo no podía imaginarse cogida de la mano en público con su novio, incluso después de nueve años de noviazgo, y mucho menos permitirse un beso en público. Para Adela los años franquistas estuvieron marcados por el miedo, y cuenta varias anécdotas de su vida cotidiana que reflejan la represión de la época. Vive en el mismo edificio de Madrid desde 1936. Salas was born in 1925 in Madrid. Her father was a shoemaker, and her mother took in laundry to augment the family income. Though from a poor family, Adela says her childhood in pre-war Madrid was a very happy one. This changed dramatically with the Civil War. She describes the horror of aerial bombardments in the "zona rojo" where she lived in Madrid, including one instance when her building was hit by a bomb. Her uncle Andrés Castillejos, a Socialist, was detained and sent to a concentration camp after the war. Adela began working in a shoestore at age fifteen. She recalls the social repression of the Franco period in an anecdote about how she could not imagine holding hands in public with her boyfriend, even after nine years of dating, let alone allow a kiss in public. For Adela the years under Franco were marked by fear, and she describes several anecdotes from her daily life reflecting the repression of the time. She has lived in the same building in Madrid since 1936 Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship Interviews in Spanish Salas' testimony was recorded in Madrid Salas Castillejos, Adela. 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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1 video file : digital, sound, color
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ark:/20775/bb39260044
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Spanish
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Oral history Personal narratives-Spanish Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) History Nonfiction films Interviews Spain Madrid (Spain)
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