Federación Española de Deportados e Internados Politicos (Paris) Archives

Period  1945-1973
Total size   0.75 m.
Consultation Not restricted

History

Founded in Toulouse shortly after the Second World War; aimed at the relief of Spanish political prisoners, former political prisoners in German concentration camps and refugees from Spain; started a campaign in 1947 for the relief of a group of republican Spaniards, consisting of aviators in training and sailors, who were left in the Soviet Union in 1939 and imprisoned in 1941; sent to concentration camps in 1942, where they found themselves in Karaganda in Kazakhstan, forced to do agricultural labour under hard conditions; the campaign by the FEDIP led to a mitigation of their confinement, but they were not released until 1954-1956; moving spirit of the campaign was José Ester Borrás (1913-1980), who was secretary general of the FEDIP from 1947 until his death; more than once Ester intervened succesfully in favour of persecuted opponents of the Franco regime in Spain and of refugees in France, who were threatened by expulsion.

Content

FEDIP: minutes and other documents of meetings and congresses 1945, 1961, 1965, 1967, 1970-1973; statutes and rules 1945, 1970; lists of sections n.d.; financial notes 1960-1961; correspondence and other documents concerning the campaign for the release of the Spanish prisoners in Karaganda 1947-1956; correspondence with F. Herzfelder, Felix Martorell, Carlos Martinez Parera and others concerning indemnity payments to former Spanish prisoners in German concentration camps 1958-1974; other documents on indemnity payments, including documents concerning the German Bundesentschädigungsgesetz ( BEG) 1954-1974 and n.d.; reports and notes by Hans Marsalek and others concerning former Spanish prisoners in Mauthausen 1949, 1953, 1957-1971, 1978 and n.d.; lists of names 1946, 1968 and n.d.; documents concerning the Fédération Nationale des Déportés et Internés Résistants et Patriotes (FNDIRP) 1968-1970 and n.d.; documents concerning the Fédération Internationale Libre des Déportés et Internés de la Résistance (FILDIR) 1964-1965, 1970 and n.d.; other documents and clippings concerning deported Spaniards in German concentration camps 1939-1940, 1946-1972 and n.d.

Processing information

List made by Tiny de Boer in 2001