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The Oradour Massacre took place on June 10, 1944, when the 3rd company of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment des Führer of the SS Das Reich Division of the Waffen SS entered the town of Oradour-sur-Glane and executed 642 civilians, bloodthirsty form.A few months later the French Forces of the Interior commissioned the Catalan sculptor Apel·les Fenosa, who was exiled in Paris, a Monument in memory of the victims.
Fenosa makes a large sculpture representing a naked pregnant woman, burning under the flames, evoking how the Germans burned the Oradour church, introducing women, children and the elderly inside.Fenosa exhibits the monument in Paris, where it is highly successful.
However, the Bishop of Limoges objects and the monument is not installed in Oradour.
Jean Cassou, a friend of Fenosa and curator of the Museu de Arte Moderno in Paris, then incorporates it into his collections, but after Fenosa's death his widow, Nicole Fenosa, insists that the monument must be installed in Oradour, where it is finally inaugurated.
June 25, 1999.Now, the Apel·les Fenosa del Vendrell Foundation (Tarragona) was preparing an exhibition on the history of the Monument that was due to open on March 28.Among the 642 civilian victims, there were 19 Spanish exiles in Oradour.
An investigation by the historian David Ferrer Revull, had identified the Spanish victims one by one, and its purpose was to rescue their memory for history.On that fateful day, two families from El Esparragal were dramatically involved.They were two sisters Antonia Pardo Guirao (El Esparragal, 1912) and Maria Pardo Guirao (El Esparragal, 1908).Antonia had married Francisco Lorente Prior, also born in El Esparragal.
They moved to Barcelona, ??where they had two children.
The youngest, Nuria Lorente Pardo also died in Oradour.
In Barcelona she ran a grocery store.
During the war, Francisco enlists in the Durruti column.
Antonia crossed the border at Portbou, on her way to exile, in February 1939.
Finally she settled in Oradour.The massacred population would also be the destination of his sister MAria Pardo Guirao, who had married José Serrano Robles, from Perchena.
They had three children, Harmony, Aster and Francisco.
The two sisters, the 9-year-old girl Nuria, and the three children of Maria, died on June 10 under the fire of Oradour, they were 3 years old, and 10 months younger.
Source: Fundación Apel·les Fenosa del Vendrell
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