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WAR MEMORIES – MEMORY WARS VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY SPAIN Maxim Kantor, Hommage à Civilization, 2004 An Interdisciplinary Conference University College Cork 16-17 September 2005 Book of Abstracts  The conference organizers are grateful to the following for their generous support: The Faculty of Arts, University College Cork; The Instituto Cervantes, Dublin; The Department of Hispanic Studies, University College Cork; Spanish, University College Dublin; Spanish and Portuguese, The Queen’s University of Belfast;. They would also like to thank Mr Maxim Kantor for permission to reproduce Hommage à Civilization and …for permission to show…  Opening Plenary Professor Helen Graham, Royal Holloway, London ‘The Memory of Murder: Mass Killing, Incarceration, and the Making of Francoism’ Memory, Historiography, and the Spanish Civil War Dr Kevin O’Donnell, University of Richmond ‘The Impact of Oral History on Spanish Civil War Historiography: The Case of Los Santamaría’ In early 1939, as the Spanish Civil War was coming to a close, los Santamaría, a working-class family from Catalonia, fled across the Pyrenees into France. The head of the family, Florencio Santamaría, had been involved in both anarchist and communist organizations during the Second Republic and the war and feared reprisals from the advancing Francoist forces. Despite being strafed by Nationalist planes, the family made it across the mountains, only to find themselves interred in French concentration camps upon arrival. Eventually they were able to board the Sinaia, the first ship to carry Spanish refugees to Mexico. They never returned to Spain. Each member of this exile family, Florencio, Josefa and Rodolfo, was interviewed for an oral history project in 1979. The result, on audio tape in the Archive of the Spanish Civil War in Salamanca, Spain, is a fascinating 80-year epic story, told from three distinct perspectives. What do their testimonies on the war add to our contemporary understandin