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Memory

The voices and accounts of the prisoners and their families, who are the main characters in this project, create an outlook that illuminates, humanises and renders great significance to the historic documents contained in this website

Many, not a mere handful, were the women who passed through Les Corts prison at one time or another and went to great lengths to pass on their experiences as inmates there.

This section, in which they feature so prominently, is dedicated to their memory. 

Laia Berenguer i Puget. Arxiu familiar.
Laia Berenguer i Puget

Head of the Socialist Youth of Catalonia (JSUC) in Sant Feliu de Codines, his hometown.

Ángeles García-Madrid at her home in Vallecas, September 2008. Photo by the Association for Culture and Memory of Catalonia (ACMe).
Ángeles Ortega García-Madrid

Born in Torrejón de Ardoz, Ángeles García-Madrid grew up in the Pacífico district of Madrid. The daughter of a railway worker, she began collaborating with the Socialist Circle at the age of sixteen and became a member of the PSOE.

Maria Salvo Iborra (s/d). Catalan Association of former Political Prisoners of the Franco regime.
Maria Salvo Iborra

Maria Salvo was the Secretary of Propaganda for the Barcelona Committee of the Unified Socialist Youth of Catalonia (Joventuts Socialistes Unificades de Catalunya, JSUC) during the Spanish Civil War.

Soledad Real, 2001. Arxiu personal de Soledad Real.
Soledad Real López

She was twenty-four years old when she entered Les Corts prison. She belonged to the Joventuts Socialistes Unificades de Catalunya (JSUC). 

Joaquina Dorado in the office of her apartment in Barcelona, ​​2008. Photo ACMe (Association for Culture and Memory of Catalonia).
Joaquina Dorado Pita

A militant of the National Confederation of Workers (CNT) and the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth (FIJL).

 

Tomasa Cuevas, 2004. Photograph by Fernando Cárdenas.
Tomasa Cuevas Gutiérrez

Born in Brihuega (Guadalajara), she was already a member of the Juventud Comunista (Communist Youth) and of the Partido Comunista de España (PCE) (