December 10, 2024. The delegate of the Government, Mariola Guevara, accompanied the Cartagena woman María Egea, recognized by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, in the act for the Day of Remembrance and Tribute to all the victims of the military coup, the War and the Dictatorship' that was held this morning in the National Music Auditorium of Madrid.
María Egea Muñoz de Zafra was born in Cartagena in 1934 within a socialist and republican family. Together with her parents and brother she boarded the port of Alicante in the Stanbrook to Oran, as a passenger 2,388. He was five years old when he began the path of exile. In Oran they were interned in a prison while their father was sent to several Algerian concentration camps until the liberation of the camps by the allies.
She stayed in Algeria for about 50 years as a teacher and teacher. In 1996 he went to Paris, where he currently lives.
“We have to defend democracy very strongly so that people become aware of what has been the war in Spain, the dictatorship, and that they know how to value and defend democracy,” Egea told Guevara, to whom he detailed how tough the first years in exile were.
“It was a hard time, because the Spanish exiles on the other side of the Mediterranean also had no rights and we needed authorization from the military authority every time we had to move,” he said.
According to his testimony, Egea widowed three years ago, retains two premiums in the Region of Murcia and his two daughters live in Mexico and Toulouse.
María Egea is one of the twenty people who today received a declaration of reparation and personal recognition to victims and family members.