Testimony of Severiano Muñez Castaño, Interview with Jodi Eisenberg and Viviana MacManus; July 30, 2008

Severiano Muñez Castaño nació en 1927 en Zalamea la Real, un pueblo rural en el sur de España. Severiano recuenta que desde temprana edad él y su familia de siete hermanos trabajaban en las minas. Explica que durante la Guerra Civil, las tropas de Franco aterrorizaban el pueblo a través de ejecuciones masivas. Severiano relata que de niño fue testigo de las ejecuciones de personas inocentes. Describe el miedo y el hambre que vivió durante la guerra y cuenta de la huída de su familia a las montañas por razones de seguridad. Severiano habla de su regreso a las minas donde trabajaría por los próximos cincuenta años.

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

• July 30, 2008

• Muñez Castaño, Severiano

• 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

1 video file : digital, sound, color

Interviews in Spanish

Severiano Muñez Castaño's testimony was recorded in Madrid

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

Mms: 991005752249706535

Online exhibit

• Spanish Civil War Memory Project

Madrid, Spain : Spanish Civil War Memory Project 2008

• Muñez Castaño, Severiano

Muñez Castaño, Severiano. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2008

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