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Exhibition "Surviving Franco's Prisons: Epistolary Testimony from 1939 to 1943" at the Catalunya campus CRAI
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URV Publications invites you to visit the exhibition "Surviving Franco's Prisons: Epistolary Testimony from 1939 to 1943" at CRAI campus Catalunya.
The exhibition offers visitors an intimate and moving look at the prison reality of the post-Franco war through the letters that Daniel Vilaró Rius wrote to his family between July 1939 and August 1943. The exhibition, based on the study of 240 letters sent from three different prisons, offers direct testimony of the repressive regime and the living conditions of political prisoners at the time.
The letters reflect with intensity the psychological impact of the defeat, the harshness of the summary trials and the uncertainty that hung over the day to day in prison. Also present are the fear, misery and emotional deprivation caused by the family separation. Through Vilaró's words, the suffering of not being able to exercise any of the family roles emerges, but also the moral resistance and the struggle to maintain hope.
The exhibition highlights the will to survive, not only physically but also emotionally, as an act of political resistance. It does so by showing the mechanisms of mutual support, the solidarity between prisoners and the fundamental role of family and social networks outside. A journey that invites reflection on historical memory, dignity and the human capacity for resistance in the face of adversity.
