Testimony of Severiano Muñez Castaño, Interview with Jodi Eisenberg and Viviana MacManus; July 30, 2008
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Eisenberg, Jodi MacManus, Viviana Muñez Castaño, Severiano 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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Muñez Castaño, Severiano
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Severiano Muñez Castaño was born in 1927 in Zalamea la Real, a rural town in the south of Spain. Severiano recounts that from a young age, he and his family of seven brothers worked in the mines. He explains that during the Civil War, Franco's troops terrorized the town through mass executions. Severiano relates that as a child he witnessed the executions of innocent people. He describes the fear and hunger he experienced during the war and speaks of his family's flight to the mountains for safety. Severiano discusses his later return to the mines where he would work for the next fifty years Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Interviews in Spanish Severiano Muñez Castaño's testimony was recorded in Madrid Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship Muñez Castaño, Severiano. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2008 Madrid, Spain : Spanish Civil War Memory Project 2008
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moving image
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1 video file : digital, sound, color
Language
Spanish; Castilian
Subject
Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) Interviews History Nonfiction films Oral history Personal narratives-Spanish Spain
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