Isabel Aillón Murgi nació en 1917 en Barcelona. Isabel recuerda que tenía dieciocho años cuando la Guerra Civil comenzó. Recuenta su militancia en el Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya (Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña). Isabel cuenta que organizó un taller de voluntarios donde hacían ropa para las milicias. Comenta que su esposo, Juan Pinós Lacambra, se unió al Frente de Granada. Isabel dice que se incorporó a la retirada a Francia cuando Franco entró a Barcelona, y describe un bombardeo enorme que ocurrió al acercarse a Figueras. Explica que cruzó a Francia, la pusieron en un campo de refugiados en la playa de Saint-Cyprien, y después la pusieron en una fábrica de seda cerrada cerca de Lyon. Isabel detalla sus condiciones de vida, notando que su hijo nació en el refugio y murió de miseria a los siete meses. Señala que su esposo fue encarcelado en Collioure, Francia. Isabel relata que se escapó a Paris en busca de su tío, trabajó como modista, se reunió con su esposo, regresaron a España en 1940, y formaron una familia en Barcelona. Isabel indica que en 1945 los Falangistas detuvieron y fusilaron a su esposo. Narra que volvió a irse a Francia en 1953 con sus hijos, trabajó como modista para una clientela selecta, y regresó a España después de darse cuenta que la policía francesa colaboraba con la Gestapo. Isabel habla sobre los cambios que le gustaría ver en el futuro.

Isabel Aillón Murgi was born in 1917 in Barcelona. Isabel recounts being eighteen years old when the Civil War began. She remembers her militancy in the Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya (Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia). Isabel relates organizing a volunteer workshop that made clothes for the militias. She comments that her husband, Juan Pinós Lacambra, joined the Granada Front. Isabel speaks of joining the retreat to France when Franco entered Barcelona, and describes a massive bombardment that occurred as they neared Figueras. She recalls entering France, being put in a refugee camp in the Saint-Cyprien beach, and being placed in an abandoned silk factory near Lyon. Isabel details their living conditions, noting that her son was born inside the factory and died at seven months from destitution. She explains that her husband was imprisoned in Collioure, France. Isabel tells of fleeing to Paris in search of her uncle, working as a designer, reuniting with her husband, returning to Spain in 1940, and forming a family in Barcelona. Isabel indicates that in 1945 the Falangists detained and executed her husband. She narrates leaving to France in 1953 with her children, working as a designer for a select clientele, and returning to Spain after finding out that the French police collaborated with the Gestapo. Isabel discusses changes she would like to see occur in the future

• July 13, 2009

• Aillón Murgi, Isabel

• Navarro, Marcella
• Pimienta, Omar

• 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

2 video files : digital, sound, color

Aillón Murgi's testimony was recorded in Barcelona

Interviews in Spanish

Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship

• Barcelona (Spain)
• Catalonia (Spain)
• France
• Granada (Spain)
• Spain

• Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya

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

• video

• Spanish; Castilian

Mms: 991005050269706535

Online exhibit

• Spanish Civil War Memory Project

Barcelona, Spain :, Spanish Civil War Memory Project

• Aillón Murgi, Isabel

Aillón Murgi, Isabel. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2009

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2023-10-26