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Bajo las garras de la gestapo: 36 días en capilla
Romero Giménez, Carlos., 1943
Romero Giménez, Carlos. Lizarraga Istúriz, Gerardo, Illus. Bajo las garras de la gestapo: 36 días en capilla. México, D.F.: Sociedad Mexicana de Publicaciones, 1943. 20 cm, 247, [6], pp.; text block toned, in orig. Illus. color wrappers by Lizarraga, frayed and discolored.
Romero Giménez was a leader of the Spanish Republican army during the Civil War, and a hero of the Defense of Madrid. At the end of the war he fled and was tried in absentia by Franco’s new government and twice sentenced to death. He first went to France where he played a leading role in the French Resistance; after his arrest and torture by the Germans he narrowly escaped the eastern death camps by the intervention of a Mexican diplomat who rescued him and his family from the Gurs concentration camp.
From 1942 until his death, he lived as an exile in Mexico, where he founded the publishing house that produced this memoir of his time in Bordeaux, his torture in the Gestapo prison at “Fort du Ha”, his escape, his recapture, and his journey from Gurs to Casablanca and finally, Mexico.
Illustrated by another Republican in exile, the antifascist organizer Gerardo Lizarraga, Remedios Varo’s ex-husband.
OCLC finds two US holdings: Harvard and LOC.
$250
