"We were slaves in the French concentration camp" Jose Barajas, 95, remembers th e hunger and torture suffered

by the Republican prisoners in the battalions "We were slaves." This refers Jose Barajas (Huelma, Jan, 1916) to labor battalions of the Franco regime, where for three years peno civil war ended with thousands of reprisals and former soldiers of the Republic. In 95 years, recalled by telephon e from Barcelona, where he now lives, hunger and death of fellow from starvation, sui ide or illness, after suffering abuse of any kind. With the passage of time assu res that no grudge - "only sometimes", he admits, but calls do not forget this s tory. "Let the youth know what happened." Son was very young socialist and attended the party rallies donkey. He was 20 ye ars old when war broke out and he enlisted in the volunteer battalions. Since th at time, spent a decade "seeing people die." After the war and the start of World War II, Barajas was sent as a slave to Punt a Paloma in Tarifa (Cadiz), where the forts built for machine guns and cannons, among them the largest army seen, brought from Mahon and was dragged by the pris oners in an area where there were no roads. In Facinas (Cdiz), built a road and a military camp. The acorns of the food field and women in the area brought the hu nger of the battalions. "We ate herbs, orange skin and herring head, spine and a ll it takes, all I ate." He also built a road in Conil (Cdiz), where a lieutenant felt sorry for the situation and increased food rations. He shared the field wit h three Republican leaders of the Board of Basques arrived Redemption Penalties for Work, an institution created in the Ministry of Justice to distribute to the slaves. Remember the huge disappointment to discover that the U.S. Obviously the situati on of prisoners and negotiate with the Spanish Government militares.Barajas base installation went through the concentration camps of Navarre and three of the 5 4 that existed in Andalusia. Places, along with deposits of prisoners and areas of mass graves, the group recover the memory of the Social History of Andalusia (RMHSA) of the General Labour Confederation (CGT) has asked to be declared prote cted and marked, according to mark the Andalusian law, places of historical memo ry. The absence until now of a form of protection has led to the disappearance of so me facilities, such as La Algaba (Sevilla), one of the most concentrated hard wh ere prisoners who built the Canal del Viar and where many died of hunger and abu se. Many of the infrastructures built by the prisoners, as the tracks from Malag a airport or the Lower Guadalquivir Canal are still operating with no or a singl e element to remember how and by whom they were raised. The group met last RMHSA day 21 with the city of Seville to ask for their suppor t and propose signaling as places of memory and the collector's Corchuela two Fr ancoist concentration camps where over 2,000 people serving sentences of hard la bor between 1938 and 1943. Blas Infante's house and the site of his execution we re the first two memory locations declared by the Junta de Andaluca. work after the Civil war