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On Tuesday, October 24, at 8:00 pm, the Josefina Soria Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center, the comic "Deportado 4443. Sus tuits ilustrados", by journalist Carlos Hernández and illustrator loaness Ensis will be presented.
The event is organized within the cycle "Read, Think, Imagine" and has had the collaboration of "Cartagena Piensa" and the Historical Memory Association of Cartagena.
In it the authors Carlos Hernández de Miguel and the illustrator loannes Ensis will take the floor.
Presenters will include historian Victor Peńalver and the president of the Historical Memory Association of Cartagena, Pepa Martínez, accompanied by Alina Ortiz, daughter and niece of two Spaniards deported to Mauthausen, brothers Antonio and Gonzalo Ortíz Crespo.
The work tells the story of the 9,300 Spaniards (among them more than 500 Murcia) who were deported in Nazi concentration camps, and has Antonio Hernández Marín, native of Molina de Segura.
Antonio Hernández, "El Murciano", managed to survive several years of captivity in Mauthausen.
After liberation, he remained in French exile until his death in 1992. Years later, one of his nephews immortalized his history and that of the rest of Spanish prisoners in the book "The Last Spaniards of Mauthausen."
Antonio Hernández burst into social networks and for three and a half months he narrated "live", through Twitter, life and death in the Austrian concentration camp.
His profile, @ deportado4443, surpassed the 45,000 followers who knew firsthand the history of the Spanish prisoners of Hitler.
All their tweets were compiled in the free-tuit book "@ deportado4443".
The author, Carlos Hernández de Miguel, explains the meaning of his work: "Antonio Hernández Marín spent four and a half years locked up behind the Nazi barbed wire at Mauthausen.
More than five thousand five hundred Spaniards could only leave the fields of Hitler's death through the chimneys of the crematory sinister, converted into smoke and ashes.
The history of all of them was buried by the Franco regime and then forgotten by our democracy.
To recover the memory of these men and women, between January and May 2015 Antonio Hernández Marín resurrected on Twitter as @ deportado4443;
a spokesman for all his comrades who narrated minute by minute, tuit a tuit, what was happening in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
That virtual hole in time captivated about fifty thousand netizens who followed with emotion their story.
Shortly after I finished telling his story, Ioannes Ensis contacted the author to propose to him to illustrate the tweets he had been reading during those three and a half months.
Their goal was to help prevent the sad adventures of these heroes and heroines from falling into oblivion.
The end result is this work.
A work done from the most absolute historical rigor, without any margin for invention.
All that is shown in these pages is based on the testimony of the few survivors and on the existing documentary evidence.
The fruits are magnificent illustrations, full of emotion and feeling, which reflect all the horror that our deportees suffered at the hands of the
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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