Conference "The Story of Angèle Garcia"

Allée Peixotto (parc Peixotto), 3400 Talence

Pierre Bernard, president of Memory and Heritage of Talence, proposes to discover an unknown episode of Talence history through the fate of a family of Spanish refugees and the moving testimony of the young Angèle Garcia. She was 11 years old when she arrived at the Santillane camp with her mother and her three sisters, leaving behind her younger brother who stayed in La Rochelle. This conference will trace the journey of this family forced to flee Spain under the Francoist bombings, until their arrival at the Talence camp on a night in August 1937. This narrative passes on memory…