Testimony of José "Pepe" Alarcón García, interview with Jessica Cordova and Jodi Eisenberg, July 2, 2009
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Cordova, Jessica Eisenberg, Jodi Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria Alarcón García, José "Pepe" University of California, San Diego
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José “Pepe” Alarcón García nació en una familia de seis hijos. Pepe recuenta que tenía seis años al comienzo de la Guerra Civil. Describe la huida de los pueblos de la Axarquía, una comarca en la provincia de Málaga. Pepe cuenta que su familia huyó en la carretera de Málaga a Almería. Su padre se entregó cuando la Falange falsamente prometió amnistía y estuvo detenido en un campo de concentración en Granada por un año. El padre de Pepe después estuvo encarcelado en Málaga y fue fusilado en 1940. Pepe destaca las privaciones que acompañaron la pérdida de su padre y el abuso que sufrió como hijo de un “rojo.” Detalla el hambre, los bajos sueldos, y el trabajo duro que marcaron su adolescencia. Pepe explica la imposibilidad de hacer el duelo para su padre bajo una dictadura que prohibía llorar por los fusilados. Nota que en 1952 se unió al Partido Comunista de España en Barcelona y narra su militancia así como las circunstancias que rodeaban la actividad política bajo la dictadura. Pepe relata que a través de investigaciones en los archivos, descubrió que terratenientes Franquistas aún controlan las propiedades que le robaron a su familia. José "Pepe Alarcón García was born to a family of six children. Pepe recounts being six years old at the start of the Civil War. He describes the flight of the people of the Axarquía, a region in the province of Málaga. Pepe tells that his family fled on the highway from Málaga to Almería. His father turned himself in when the Falange falsely promised amnesty and was placed in a concentration camp in Granada for a year. Pepe's father was then imprisoned in Málaga and was executed in 1940. Pepe recalls the hardships that accompanied the loss of his father and the abuse suffered as the child of a rojo (red). He details the hunger, low wages, and hard labor that defined his adolescence. Pepe relates the impossibility of truly mourning the death of his father under a dictatorship that prohibited crying over those executed. He notes that in 1952 he joined the Communist Party of Spain in Barcelona and narrates his militancy as well as the circumstances that surrounded political activity under the dictatorship. Pepe explains that through archival research, he discovered that Francoist landowners still control land they seized from his family 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 José "Pepe" Alarcón García's testimony was recorded in his apartment in Málaga Interviews in Spanish Alarcón García, José "Pepe". Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2009 Málaga, Spain, Spanish Civil War Memory Project, 2009
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moving image
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2 video files : digital, sound, color
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ark:/20775/bb51889463
Language
Spanish
Subject
History Interviews Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) Oral history Nonfiction films Communism Personal narratives-Spanish Spain Granada (Spain) Barcelona (Spain)
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