TRIBUTE TO THE ALMUDENA EXECUTED AND OTHER REPUBLICANS (EAST CEMETERY, MADRID) OR SOURCE OF YOUR DRINKING WATER IS Felisa This year finally, since we learned in October 2007 that was held a tribute to the three thousand shot East Cemetery Madrid (now de la Almudena), date (16 April) coincided with school holidays in France. What joy! We could travel there from Paris, Daniel Serrano Recio (91 years, brother and fellow Eudaldo shot eight people shot over Toledo Esteban Tower hunger) and I, instead of going to the big celebration of 80 anniversary of the Republic organized by Republicans in exile in France in Ille-sur-Tet (Perpignan).
O'Donnell arrived at the door of the Avenida de las Trece Rosas. There was the position of the editorial "Le Temps des Cerises" with books and posters Republicans (the famous "aidez l'Espagne," the Republican Cibeles, many more. How wonderful!). The comrades of the post, Torrijos (twenty-five miles from La Torre, where Daniel was often carry cattle fairs with his father and brother Eudaldo, but he, boy, just rode the carousels) sold me some wonderful posters (fruit imagination and the graphic talent of the artists who were thrilled by the heroic defense of the Republic) and without hesitation I signed our petition for the Republicans streets. Here in France also signed responsible for the editorial. Entering
I took pictures of Daniel at the lineup of those shot, including Eudaldo. Then we go to the wall to fund individual photos, with Mexican flags. That came to greet Daniel Emilio Silva who remembered him for the 2010 session of "Where are you going Peter? "Cultural center Jean Houdremont (La Courneuve, France) and Henri Belin, whose documentary unites them, as several Memory other Republican fighters.
After witnessing the tribute during which great personalities of university culture, the judiciary, SOCAM artists like Lucia, the young French student coming Avignon Ducellier Aurore, who read poems by José Luis Gallego. Franco's crimes were evoked de la Almudena, Badajoz, Jaén, Sevilla. Failed for lack of time, giving the floor to any of the (few) seniors present, or Daniel, (come from Paris) who had his two minutes discursillo prepared for a month (attached). It is pity to miss opportunities to give voice to the elderly witnesses of the tragedy English, because there are few.
So, with friends from Navan, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Valencia and those who joined us spontaneously decided to organize after the solemn tribute of Memory and Freedom for the shot, a brief demonstration of respect, (although only with the goodwill of those present) to relatives of those who accompanied us (not shot but repressed), the victims of the conflict caused by the fascists, the brigade we admire without reservation, about Torreño without photo the wall (not to find the relatives), with names taken from records and 'martial' relatives of friends in the wall but who could not put our friendship carnation not access it due to the lineup that resembled an open pit with skeletons, mounted to the wall in a symbolic way this year. Gil Soledad Alcantara Cullera they had asked us we put flowers on his part to thirteen Rosas. By not having them power and admiration and affection, we include in our brief and spontaneous tribute, the result of our enthusiasm and desire to act and speak out for the Republican cause.
photo also include relatives of friends in Paris (Acacia Counts, Iris Leclerc), Maria Gomez, absent, because it does not bother or on any tribute to our own, yet without monuments in Spain: Fernando Counts, Geoffrey Labarga Carballo, Labarga Emilio Cuenca, Dionisio Gómez Hermoso (these three shot), the hero of Córdoba (Silillos) John Joseph Bernet Aguayo "the Chimneys, the family of Ma José Barreiro, Juan Orozco López de Gamarra (shot in Malaga) and Barreiro Manuel Rey. They held pictures of relatives, Manuel Serrano of his grandfather, Mariano Serrano Sanchez (The "Navarrito" as a champion of agrarian reform in the Tower), Domingo Escudero of their brave brothers Manuel Escudero Peinado (Torreño, among many, shot Talavera), Avelino Escudero Peinado (de la Torre, but died in Los Glières, fighting fascism in the Resistance in Haute-Savoie, who last July held a solemn tribute Thorens Mayor Miguel Vera, president of the Resistance Amical English). Also came from Vicente Guzmán Izquierdo Mislata to honor his grandfather Torreño, Mamerto Guzmán López, a prisoner in San Simon, Vigo, until 1943, (which look data) and Martin Paz Fuenlabrada to join us and honor the Republican teacher father ( Miñambres Tomás Romero) of a friend, shot in Avila, like his grandfather, Julian Basilio Martín Avila, also a great fighter Fontiveros for Agrarian Reform in the hands of her husband Rafael. Paloma Serrano said the photo of Dionisio Gómez Hermoso, Daniel (the "Paris" de La Torre, Eudaldo his brother and father (my grandfather) Pedro Serrano Merchan, pursued by the predatory and ferocious fascist (like all fascism) of Stephen Hunger Tower. Many young people came together, including Ducellier Aurore, and some adults, who spontaneously united to support our group shot without photo names (Torreño whose relatives seek, eight shot in the Almudena, the record Eudaldo). Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart said the mayor's name de la Torre, shot in 1940 in Talavera, Pedro Caballero Bermudez, (no picture yet though have contacted a daughter of her sister Nicole and her son Cesareo Lopez Garrido, shot in the Almudena, whose picture is not on the wall, not to contact their relatives with memory and Freedom, as I suggested, and we contacted them through the blog of Eduardo Montagut Contreras, who even opened up a space with great sympathy and solidarity). Emilio Silva said the relatives of Councilman Martin Aurelio Serrano, Cipriana and Trinidad, humiliated old Kiki ricin and red by the people before being shot and thrown into a pit by Méntrida.
We also wanted to remember his name and picture of the first Republican mayor of Vigo, yes there they put a Street, Enrique Blein Budiño, died in prison, Antonio Guzmán Martín, the son of Mamerto, which taken prisoner by not giving the child the Republican militias Tower.
Daniel and I sang the anthem of the PSOE unknown Pablo Iglesias, the English letter Marseillaise (attached), a magnificent hymn to peace and the Union of Workers, said that nuesra goal, such as Memory and Freedom, is to a monument at the Almudena with the names of those killed, in addition to ensuring that streets are made to the Republicans and their supporters (Gerda Taro, the brigade, for example), everywhere, all over Spain, a great struggle, to be bear at the cancellation Franco sentencing. So Sunday Escudero said the petition for annulment of the decision of the president of Catalonia, Lluis Companys, who was killed to destroy the freedom of their homeland. A Companys it does put a street in La Baule last August. Paris also brought home our sign "Truth, Justice and Reparation 'out at the rally by Judge Garzon to the English embassy, \u200b\u200bwith Chilean friends.
With this brief but enthusiastic homage at the Almudena, Madrid symbolic place of many fascist crimes, we express our strong desire to be helpful to the Republican cause, to express our passion for it. Ended with the enthusiastic cry of "Long live the Republic!
was nice and exciting to see in this dreadful cemetery with that fateful wall, the desire to participate, or fraternity of the attendees. In our humble level we are pleased to have participated in the tribute of the Almudena. So we say that whatever happens, "Source, your own drink water," return to the Almudena, for ours, for Eudaldo, by Elizabeth, by Mariano, and William, by Frances, cesarean section, by Felipe Cortés Simal (24/06/1939), by Theophilus Marine Aguado (15/11/1939), shot in the Tower, and all the others, Jack Shafran, whose ashes lie Today in the Jarama, by Oliver Law, fallen heroically in Brunete, the Lincoln Brigade. Long live solidarity, fraternity, ideals of the Republic, the Brigade!
Fuente, drink your own water.
Thank you all for remembering our heroic Republicans and brigade.
Rose-Marie Serrano, Paris, 19.04.1911
