Bearing Witness (eBook)

Prison Stories from a Woman's Fight Against Fascism

Mercedes Nunez Targa (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
240 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4909-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Thanks to this superb translation, English-language readers finally have access to a classic work of prison literature that has played a major role in keeping alive the memory of the crimes of FrancoPaul Preston, historian and author ofArchitects of TerrorA humane, vivid and painfully honest testimony of incarceration under two fascist systems that flares up an urgent signal in our moment of clear and present dangerHelen Graham, Professor Emeritus, Royal HollowayThis is the story of a woman who resisted two totalitarian regimes. Mercedes Nez Targa was a Catalan socialist imprisoned under the Franco dictatorship. On her release, she joined the French Resistance and was subsequently arrested by the German Gestapo.This is her story in her own words. Her vivid writings about her time in Ventas prison in Madrid reveal the contrast between the horrific conditions in the prison and the prisoners incredible spirit and endurance. Later, writing about her confinement in a Nazi concentration camp, she describes the violence of the SS guards and her comrades own pitiful conditions, showing how the appalling treatment only united the women further. This is the first time her story has been available in English, her words providing a unique opportunity to further understand female solidarity and resistance against the dreadful power of fascism.Mercedes Nez Targa (19111986) was born in Barcelona. She became an active member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia from an early age. Her outrage at Francos military coup in 1936 galvanised her commitment to the fight against fascism. Arrested in 1939, she spent most of the next six years in fascist prisons in Spain and Nazi Germany. Freed at the end of the war, Nez Targa continued to campaign against the Franco regime while in exile, and finally returned to Spain after Francos death. She died in Spain in 1986.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2024
• Einführung: Mirta Nunez Diaz-Balart
• Übersetzer: Nick Caistor, Faye Williams
• Vorwort: Pete Ayrton
• Zusatzinfo: 55 photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Anti-fascist resistance • Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War • Catalan independence • Catalan politics • Catalan Socialists • concentration camps • death camps • Franco Regime • French Resistance • gas chambers • general Franco • Gestapo • Maquis • Nazi women's concentration camp • Pablo Neruda • Political prisoners • post-civil war Spain • prison diaries • Prisoners of war • prison memoirs • Ravensbrück • Spanish Civil War • Spanish Republic • Stories of resisting the Nazis • Ventas Prison • women political prisoners • women prisoners • women who fought in the Spanish Civil War
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4909-9 / 0745349099
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4909-1 / 9780745349091