The Archives and Libraries area of the Dénia City Council has organized a new edition of the democratic memory days Memòria i futur 2024, presented this morning by the Councilor for Culture, Raúl García de la Reina; the municipal archivist, Rosa Seser and the head of the Library service, Llúcia Signes.
The conference, which began to be held in 2021, is part of a broader project developed by the Dénia City Council in recent years with the aim of "continuing to rescue from oblivion episodes of our history that, evidently, were attempted to be erased during the Franco era." and that, unfortunately, it still bothers today that too many people come to light," indicated the Councilor for Culture.
García de la Reina has stated that "we are living in a political moment that places the defense of democratic memory in full relevance" and has alluded to the "concord" law that is being processed by the current government of the Generalitat and that, in its opinion, "attempts to undo the path taken by the Democratic Memory Law, not only in terms of recovering the history of the victims, but also in terms of their dignity."
Furthermore, the councilor highlighted that initiatives such as these sessions allow progress in research and the discovery of new data.
Programming Languages
Programming begins on Wednesday April 24, with the projection of documentary Magpie, red hunter, directed by Pedro de Echave and Felip Solé, to the 19: 00, in the Dénia Library.
The documentary composes a portrait of Pedro Urraca, a Spanish police officer and Gestapo agent who led the persecution of numerous Spanish republicans exiled in France during the Nazi occupation, through the testimony of his granddaughter, Loreto Urraca, who will participate in the talk-colloquium What will happen to the projection.
In this event, a "historic meeting" will take place, said the head of Libraries, Llúcia Signes, since Loreto Urraca, the granddaughter, will meet for the first time with Luis Pérez-Segnini, grandson of the Mexican ambassador in France who helped many refugees Spaniards, among them, Manuel Azaña, one of the main objectives of the Spanish police.
El Sunday April 28, with the collaboration of the Cine-club Pessic, the movie The teacher who promised the sea at the Social Center (19:00), directed by Patricia Font.
El May 5, Day of tribute to the Spaniards deported and killed in concentration camps and to all the victims of Nazism in Spain, to the 12: 00 noon, will take place in the Dénia cemetery on act of tribute to the Dianenses victims of Nazism. An initiative of the families of the victims coordinated and promoted by the historian Josep Ahuir.
That same day, the IES Teulada students who will participate in a trip to the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camps with their History teacher, Manuel Farpón, will place a plaque in memory of the Dénia victims in the Gusen camp.
Women in the context of war also play a leading role in the programming. He Tuesday May 7 will be inaugurated at the Dénia House of Culture exhibition «Republican women. A truncated revolution, accompanied by the documentary Republican women. A material provided by the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory of Aragon (ARMHA), whose president, Enrique Gómez Arnas, will participate in the opening of the exhibition, which can be visited until May's 18.
Then to the 19: 30, the historian Joan Miquel Almela will offer the cinference about Maria Cambrils, under the title A pioneer of feminism or the famous unknown. Maria Cambrils (El Cabañal, 877-Pego, 1939) was a member of the socialist group of Valencia, author of articles on women and feminism in the 20s and of the book Socialist Feminism (1925), with a prologue by Clara Campoamor.
On Wednesday, May 15, at 19:30 p.m., in the library, Teresa Ballester and Rosa Seser will address in a conference the topic of war repression in Dénia and the victims at the beginning of the war. Rosa Seser has pointed out that it is a "very confusing issue, with many versions", on which we have been working since 1991. The beginning of the Civil War means a few months of lack of control, "the culprits are not easy to identify, it is a hot potato, but it's time to do it.
The May 22 will be screened at the Social Center, at 19: 30 hours, the documentary The three deaths of Teófilo del Valle, with the intervention of the director, Manuel de Juan, and Luz Quiñonero, president of Acció Ciutadana against the impunity of the Franco regime.
And to close this year's programming, the May 29 will occur conference Valencian deportation. The latest data discovered, by Adrián Blas Mínguez, delegate of the Amical de Mauthausen to the Valencian Country, with new stories about the Valencian exiles and the Marina Alta. It will be at 19.30:XNUMX p.m., at the Dénia Library.
Admission to the events is free until the capacity of the rooms is reached.
