In the Civil War, many families were punished with exile by the rebels who overthrew the Spanish Republic. Such was the case of the residents of the small town of Menagarai, in Araba, Basque Country. This is the expulsion order.
by paniniconqueso
In the Civil War, many families were punished with exile by the rebels who overthrew the Spanish Republic. Such was the case of the residents of the small town of Menagarai, in Araba, Basque Country. This is the expulsion order.
by paniniconqueso
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>”They have not shown the welcoming spirit of the New Spain, but instead have made flagrant their coolness and opposition to the National Movement by coming out to greet the sisters JOSEFA and MARIA GANCEDO, known separatists and who belong to the family who have most hurt Spain in this Ayala valley. As such, and with the agreement of the military authority, I have decided that in 3 days time, if you do not esteem that this is too short, the following parties will pay the National Treasury the proceeding fines, and they will choose a town to go to that is THREE HUNDRED KILOMETRES TO THE SOUTH OF THE BASQUE PROVINCES: Maximo Gorbes : 1000 PESETAS. Eulogia Orueta and her daughter : 1000 PESETAS. And the familia of Solloa, 1000 PESETAS.”
To summarise a little bit. Menagarai is a tiny village in Araba, the Basque Country, of around 160 inhabitants today.
https://preview.redd.it/corc1xs8abjd1.jpeg?width=4096&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e381a5210eee4e69bacc340ba905eeae70cead69
[ A bit more about the family Gancedo](https://abb.eaj-pnv.eus/es/adjuntos-documentos/18586/pdf/lazaro-gancedo-salmanton-menagarai-1900-2001):
>Menagaraira iritsi orduko, Maria eta Josefa atxilotu etaLeonera deserriratu zituzten. halaber, erantzukizun poli-tikoen Auzitegiak Gancedo ahizpak zehatu zituen, besteak beste, bakoitzari bost mila pezetako isuna ezarriz. Arestian aipatu arpilatzea erakusten duen pasadizo txikibat dago: militar faxistak haien etxea arpilatu eta berrogei urtera, Lazarok militar baten emaztearen telefono-deia jaso zuen. Madrilen zuen etxean, Gancedotarren hiru margolan zeuzkala esan zion hark. Dirudienez, militar hark, larriki gaixorik zegoela, hartutakoa itzuli nahi izan zien legezko jabeei, Gancedotarrek bera hil ondoren eramanez gero. Hiru margolanak Gancedotarren etxeko hormetan eskegi ziren berriz Menagarain, militarra hil eta gutxira. Erbestean ezarrita, Lazaro Gancedok, familia guztiarekin batera, bidaiatzeari ekin zion, iparraldeko zenbait basetxetatik, Frantziako Gerseko departamenduan. Haiekustiatzen jardun zuen eta, haiek bezala, Aiaratik zetozen erbesteratuekin topo egin zuen haietako batzuetan. Bestegerra batek, bigarren mundu Gerrak, eragindako eskasia pairatu zuten han. Nekazaritza-lanen gogortasunari abere, zereal, eta abarren konfiskatzeak batzen zitzaizkion, soldadu nazien aldetik, garai hartan frantses lurraldea okupatuta baitzeukaten.
>Erbestean, haren lau seme-alaba txikiak jaio ziren: Koldo, Gaizka, Edurne eta Jon. 1942an, Lazarok eta Inesek Menagarain euren izekoekin ikasi eta bizitzera igorri zituzteneuren seme nagusi biak. Sei urte geroago, beste lau seme-alabak egin zuten bide berbera. 1950ean, Aiarako bere lurrera itzultzea erabaki zuen, agintari frankistek ohartarazi ondoren kontu politikoetan berriz nahastuz gero kanporatu egingo zutela. Lazarok ez zion jaramonik egin mehatxuari eta klandestinitateko jarduerari berrekin zion, Euzko Alderdi Jeltzalearen lerroetatik, poliziak etengabe zainduta egonarren. Diktadura frankistan ospatutako Aberri Egun guztietara joan zen, Guardia zibilak galarazi zionean izan ezik.
*As soon as they reached Menagarai, Maria and Josefa were arrested and banished to Leon. The tribunal of Political Responsibilities punished the Gancedo sisters, among other things, with a fine of five thousand pesetas each.*
*There is a small anecdote which illustrates the plundering referred to above referred to: forty years after the Fascist military ransacked his house, Lázaro received a phone call from a soldier’s wife. She told him that, in her Madrid home, she had three paintings that belonged to the Gancedo family. It seems that the military man, who was seriously ill, wanted to return the property to its rightful owners, on the condition that the Gancedo family would take them back after his death. The three paintings hung again on the walls of the Gancedo house in Menagarai shortly after the military man’s death.*
*Once in exile, Lazaro Gancedo began, with the rest of the family, to move from farm to farm in the North Basque Country and in the French department of Gers, where he took over the daily work and in some of them coinciding with people in exile who, like them, came from the Aiara valley. There they suffered the hardships of another war: the Second World War.*
*In addition to the hardships of agricultural work, there were the hardship of the requisition of livestock, cereals, etc. at the hands of the Nazi soldiers who at that time were occupying French territory. During their exile, their four youngest children were born: Koldo, Gaizka, Edurne and Jon. In 1942, Lazaro and Ines sent their two eldest sons to study and live with their aunts in Menagarai. Six years later, another four children followed the same path. In 1950, Lazaro decided to return to her homeland in Aiara with a warning from Franco’s authorities that he would be expelled if he became involved in politics again. Lazaro ignored the threat and resumed clandestine activity in the ranks of the Basque Nationalist Party, despite continued police surveillance. He attended all the Aberri Eguna (Day of the Basque Motherland) celebrations held during the Franco dictatorship except when the Guardia Civil prevented him from doing so.*
Lazaro had the last laugh though, he was elected as mayor of his town of Menagarai in 1979.
Sinceramente, creo que no sería descabellado decir que en España se cometió un genocidio contra todo aquél opuesto al alzamiento militar. Republicanos, comunistas, anarquistas, etc. Exiliados, expulsados, torturados, asesinados, masacrados, desaparecidos.
Es impopular decirlo porque mucha gente quiere olvidar este episodio de la historia y algunos quieren sembrar falsas equivalencias, pero, repito, creo que no sería descabellado.
Y sí, un genocidio puede ser político (politicidio). Véase el genocidionde comunistas de Indonesia.
No pude encontrar una buena calculadora, pero por lo visto 1000 pesetas en 1955 serian 335 euros en 2020. Imagino que sería mucho dinero para gente de pueblo no? No se cuanto se ahorraba en aquella época la vd
lo más interesante que he leído en meses. gracias por compartir.