Murcia remembers the role it played in the civil war in providing health care to international brigade members

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“The City of the Wounded,” conferences set to take place this Friday and Saturday will include a tour of the four hospitals that worked, a tribute to the deceased at Nuestro Padre Jesús Cemetery, and roundtables, conferences, and an exhibition at Los Molinos of the river

Murcia will host this weekend the first days dedicated to the presence of the International Brigades in the Civil War, under the slogan ‘The City of the Wounded’ and organized by the Murcia City Council and the Tenemos Murcia association. Murcia was a health center for the International Brigades and last year the professor at the University of Murcia (UMU), Pedro María Egea, discovered that the famous French photographer and filmmaker Henri Cartier-Bresson was featured in the documentary ‘Victoria de la vida’ , in 1937, how the hospital prostheses workshop in the Claustro de la Merced worked. That documentary about the hospitals of Republican Spain, according to Egea Bruno, contains “perhaps the most interesting part of the Federica Montseny Hospital, which is the creation of a prosthetics workshop.”

For the restoration of the historical memory of Murcia, these conferences were organized on Friday 10 and Saturday 11 February. A historical tour of ‘Murcia, City of the Wounded’ will take place on Friday at 4:30 pm, including the locations of the International Brigades hospitals, starting from the UMU’s Law Cloister Hall. Murcia, an important Republican health city in the hinterland, was home to four of the hospitals that cared for the wounded volunteers who came to the Civil War in 1936 from so many parts of the world. In particular, the Pasionaria Hospital (currently IES Francisco Cascales), the Casa Roja Hospital (on Trapería Street, opposite the Real Casino de Murcia), the Federica Montseny Hospital (Faculty of Law) and the Radio Hospital (nowadays abolished), in the Plan of San Francisco de Murcia.

At 6 pm, the inauguration of the photo exhibition of the International Brigades Fund ‘Murcia en la sanidad de las Brigades Internacionales’ will take place in Molinos del Río. The University Hospital Federica Montseny’, curated by Pedro María Egea Bruno. Mercedes Nicolás, from the Tenemos Memoria-Murcia association, will present at 6:30 p.m. at the same place the announcement ‘The city of the wounded and its footprint in the cemetery of Nuestro Padre Jesús de Murcia’.

For Saturday, at 10 a.m., the conference in Molinos del Río by Michael Uhl entitled ‘Betty Rosenfeld in the BBBII Hospitals in Murcia’, presented by Klaus Schriewer, Professor of Social Anthropology at UMU, and will continue at noon with the round table ‘The city of Murcia in the universe of the BBII. Databases and Archives’, with the participation of Lourdes Prades (SIDBRINT), Antonio Selva (CEDOBI), Severiano Montero (AABI) and Michael Uhl, moderated by Pedro María Egea Bruno, professor of contemporary history at UMU.

That same Saturday, at 4:30 p.m., there will be a tribute to the International Brigades, at the Nuestro Padre Jesús de Murcia cemetery, with a flower offering that will have this route: Plaza de la Paz, area of ​​dissidents and dignified tomb of the BBII in Zone 2 (where the remains of 127 International Brigades volunteers rest). This cemetery houses 789 reprisals in 138 graves. According to the organizers of the days, “the vast majority of these graves no longer exist and the remains of many of the victims have been transferred to the ossuary and other cemeteries over the years.”

Source: La Verdad

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