EL MUME travels to the IES Olivar Gran in Figueres

Exhibition of witnesses of the republican exile of 1939 in the IES Olivar Gran (Figueres)

IES Olivar Gran, Thursday, May 25, 2017

On May 25, from 4 to 7 pm, the MUME de la Jonquera participates with a small temporary exhibition of a showcase with documents and objects from the MUME collection in order to evoke the republican exile through its documentary testimonies in the set of works that the teachers and students of the IES Olivar Gran have carried out throughout the 2016-17 academic year (and coinciding with the presentation of the ERASMUS PLUS program).

The documents and objects chosen for this exhibition at IES Olivar Gran are linked to 4 cases of people and families exiled in 1939:

1. Dolors Cos Roget (Figueres, 1904, Paris, 1992) was a teacher and translator of languages ​​and a republican writer in exile in France. He went into exile with his parents, who also died in exile between 1941 and 1944.

Laissez-Passer by Dolors Cos for two months in Montauban, Prefecture of the Department of Tarn and Garonne, France (1939). MUME / Private collection of Lola Cos.

2. Burguès Family (Sabadell family exiled to France and Mexico in 1939).

Frimari Burguès Cañomeras (Sabadell, 1902 / Barcelona, ​​1996)

Hortènsia Padrós Viñals (Sabadell, 1904 / L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1990)

Cleopatra Burguès Padrós (Sabadell, 1925- Mexico City, 2015)

Heidi Burguès Padrós (Mexico DF, 1941)

Special visa as political asylum seekers of Hortènsia Padrós and Cleopatra Burguès (Migration Service of Mexico, June 13, 1939). MUME / Private collection of Heidi Burguès.

3. Serra Miralles family (Family of republican exiles in France and ex-deportee in Mauthausen)

Identification plates of Miquel Serra Grabulosa corresponding to his stay as a prisoner of war in the XVII B stable, in Krems (Austria), between June 1940 and December 1941, after being taken prisoner by the Germans in May in the north of France and his imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen (Austria), between December 1941 and May 1945. MUME / Serra-Miralles Family Fund

4. Santiago Pipió Murillo (Faió, Zaragoza, 1907- Girona, 1998), republican soldier exiled to France in 1939.

Santiago Pipió's domino game, made with beef bears in the Agde Republican refugee concentration camp, France, 1939). MUME / Private collection of Héctor Pipió