Cándido Mollano nació en 1929 en Membrillo, Andalucía. Cándido recuerda que tenía siete años cuando la Guerra Civil empezó. Cuenta que uno de sus tíos murió de hambre en un campo de concentración en la provincia de Huelva durante la guerra. Comenta que sus padres escondían fugitivos políticos, incluyendo a cuatro de sus primos, que eran perseguidos por la Falange. Cándido relata que vio el incendio de Membrillo Abajo después de que la Falange asesinó a las familias de esa comunidad. Recuenta que la Falange confundió a una de sus tías por otra mujer y la forzó a raparse la cabeza, tomar aceite de ricino, y defecar públicamente en el pueblo junto con otras mujeres. Cándido explica que la represión política y las torturas de los ciudadanos de Membrillo y los pueblos cercanos persistía un año luego de haber comenzado la guerra, mucho después de que la Falange había exitosamente erradicado toda la resistencia. Dice que nunca se ha afiliado a ningún partido político, pero es firmemente antifranquista. Cándido se casó y se estableció en Membrillo en la misma casa donde se crío y donde continúa viviendo.

Cándido Mollano was born in 1929 in Membrillo, Andalucía. Cándido recalls being seven years old at the start of the Civil War. He notes that one of his uncles died from hunger in a concentration camp in the province of Huelva during the war. He tells that his parents hid political fugitives, including four of his cousins, who were persecuted by the Falange. Cándido relates witnessing the burning of Membrillo Abajo after the Falange murdered the families of that community. He recounts that the Falange mistook one of his aunts for another woman and forced her to shave her head, drink castor oil, and defecate publicly in the town along with other women. Cándido explains that the political repression and torture of the citizens of Membrillo and the neighboring towns persisted one year into the war, well after the Falange had successfully eradicated all resistance. He has never been affiliated with any political party, but is staunchly anti-Francoist. Cándido married and settled in the Membrillo home in which he grew up and where he continues to live

• July 31, 2008

• Mollano, Cándido

• Eisenberg, Jodi
• MacManus, Viviana

• Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos
• Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica
• Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria

• University of California, San Diego

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Cándido Mollano's testimony was recorded in his home in Membrillo, Andalucía

Interviews in Spanish

Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship

• Spain

• Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939)
• History
• Interviews
• Nonfiction films
• Oral history
• Personal narratives-Spanish

• video

• Spanish; Castilian

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Online exhibit

• Spanish Civil War Memory Project

Membrillo, Andalucía, Spain, Spanish Civil War Memory Project, 2008

• Mollano, Cándido

Mollano, Cándido. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2008

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