Semana Santa & Stolpersteine

Meeting Montis For Pancakes & Smoothies

Breogan Park 

Shooting The Breeze

Trying To Get The Shuttlecock Down

Posing

Big Easter Treats

Easter Egg Hunt

Hanging With Ari

Carrot Easter Cake

Party Food For Jules & Ari

Naughty Mabel!

Making Yummy Torrijas

Turned Out Yummy

Reading In The Park

Night Walks

Emblematic Stationery Shop In Chamberi Shutting Down

Easter Egg Painting At Daisy & Lara's

Andrés Fariñas Adsuar. Calle Viriato, 2.

Andrés fought on the side of the Second Spanish Republic against Franco and fled to France when Catalonia fell to the nationalists in 1939. It’s thought that he was captured by the Nazis around the Vosges region in eastern France and transported to Mauthausen and later to Gusen. He was killed there on 17 October 1941 but his family never found out the truth about his death despite frequent requests to the Francoist dictatorship, although they were issued a death certificate for him in 1952. His mother sat outside her house every evening waiting for her youngest son to return, until her death at the age of 80.

Pedro Díaz Clemente. Calle Virtudes, 22. 

Pedro was originally from Guadalajara province but lived in Madrid for several years before meeting his future wife Mercedes Espinosa Ojeda in Catalonia. They had a daughter together but his wife’s family, who were fascist sympathisers, forced him to leave Spain and go to France. There he was captured by the Nazis and sent to various concentration camps. His wife was able to find him via Red Cross International and they corresponded for a while, with Pedro often sending his wife drawings and poems… until one day the letters stopped. She never gave up hope that he would return to Spain one day, but died before finding out the truth. Their daughter, also called Mercedes, was later contacted by historian Benito Bermejo who told her that Pedro was murdered in 1941 in Hartheim Castle gas chambers.  

Antonio Zurita Mayo. Calle Espronceda, 7

Antonio fought against Franco on the side of the Second Spanish Republic then fled to France in 1939. He was captured by the Nazis and sent first to Mauthausen and later to Gusen. He worked there as a train driver,  transporting the stone-laden wagons from the quarries and used to roast potatoes in his engine to share with other prisoners. He managed to survive and was offered work by the French government as a miller. He lived in Puteaux, a suburb of Paris, until his death aged 97.