Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 0:58:59 GMT -5
In the first half of , more than , Internet users followed with emotion the story on Twitter of Antonio Hernández Marín, @deportado , a Spanish prisoner who tweeted minute by minute what life and death was like in a Nazi concentration camp. Through his story we learned about the forgotten tragedy of the more than , Spaniards who suffered the worst hell created by human beings: Hitler's death camps. Two thirds of them, , men and women, born in cities and towns spread throughout the geography of our country, perished between the barbed wire of Buchenwald, Dachau, Ravensbrück, Auschwitz and, especially, Mauthausen. copyThat initiative, which constituted a true phenomenon on social networks, became in a comic book published by 'Ediciones B' that sold out within a few weeks of its launch. Despite having printed more than , copies in two editions, the work quickly disappeared from bookstores.
Five years later, Penguin Random House, with its SineQuaNon imprint, reissues the comic book created by cartoonist Ioannes Ensis and journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel, creator of the Twitter account and author of The Last Spaniards of Mauthausen and The C Level Executive List Concentration Camps Franco . The work, Deportado , has respected a good part of the texts that the Spanish prisoner tweeted, but has been summarized and restructured so that it ends up being a faithful, rigorous and complete account of the history of the Spanish deportation. The illustrations reflect the torture, murders, and humiliations to which the Spaniards were subjected by members of the SS.
The infamous Mauthausen quarry that the prisoners had to climb loaded with blocks of granite weighing up to kilos, the crematorium, the gas chambers, the hunger... everything has been captured in the pages of Deporteado A true story with flesh and blood characters copyIn his illustrations we find real characters, Spanish prisoners whose stories we know thanks to their own stories or the testimony of their surviving companions; starting with the two narrators: Antonio Hernández Marín from Murcia and Antonio Cebrián Calero from Albacete. Just as happened on Twitter, they are the ones who introduce us to Nazi horror. Antonio Hernández managed to survive four and a half years of captivity in Mauthausen . His great friend, Antonio Cebrián, was not so lucky.
Five years later, Penguin Random House, with its SineQuaNon imprint, reissues the comic book created by cartoonist Ioannes Ensis and journalist Carlos Hernández de Miguel, creator of the Twitter account and author of The Last Spaniards of Mauthausen and The C Level Executive List Concentration Camps Franco . The work, Deportado , has respected a good part of the texts that the Spanish prisoner tweeted, but has been summarized and restructured so that it ends up being a faithful, rigorous and complete account of the history of the Spanish deportation. The illustrations reflect the torture, murders, and humiliations to which the Spaniards were subjected by members of the SS.
The infamous Mauthausen quarry that the prisoners had to climb loaded with blocks of granite weighing up to kilos, the crematorium, the gas chambers, the hunger... everything has been captured in the pages of Deporteado A true story with flesh and blood characters copyIn his illustrations we find real characters, Spanish prisoners whose stories we know thanks to their own stories or the testimony of their surviving companions; starting with the two narrators: Antonio Hernández Marín from Murcia and Antonio Cebrián Calero from Albacete. Just as happened on Twitter, they are the ones who introduce us to Nazi horror. Antonio Hernández managed to survive four and a half years of captivity in Mauthausen . His great friend, Antonio Cebrián, was not so lucky.