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6 results where found for «Colonia Dignidad»
- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:Carmen Espinoza Alegría
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « When we arrived at Colonia Dignidad, they threw us into a shed. I despaired, took off my hood and a guard gave me a slap so hard that I fell to the ground. This was my arrival at the Colonia. »
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Recinto: Colonia Dignidad- There are 5 testimonies about this detention centre.
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- Music piece by:Julio Iglesias
- Testimony by:Carmen Espinoza Alegría
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « I’m from Talca. I met César, my comrade, my love, in 1971 or 1972, approximately. We were young idealists, we were members of Juventudes Comunistas, and were student leaders in our secondary schools. »
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- « They took us to Colonia Dignidad. They kept us women on camping beds, tied by the feet and hands. That’s where the torture started. I remember there was a very loud turbine, I think it provided light and power for the whole complex. »
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- Music piece by:Julio Iglesias
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « At the beginning of the 1970s, I met Carmen, my comrade, my love, at the Juventudes Comunistas of Talca. We had the life of young idealists, sharing our everyday, living this revolutionary process so beautifully. »
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- « I was arrested and kidnapped in April 1975 and was taken to Colonia Dignidad, near Parral, a place known globally for what happened there; known for
Paul Schaefer as well as the kidnapping and torture we suffered. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Piotr Ilich Tchaikovski
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by
Tchaikovsky a lot. It was very repetitive. To several comrades, it reminds them of torture. It is not very enjoyable for us to listen to this piece at this life stage, because it transports us back to all the suffering, to what they did to us. »- [Read full testimony]
- Music piece by:Georgie Dann
- Testimony by:César Montiel
- Experience in:Colonia Dignidad, April 1975
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- « I have a story about 'El bimbó', a song that shaped us in those difficult moments in Colonia Dignidad. It was a song with a tropical rhythm that was very trendy in the 1970s. It was played every day on the radio. Also on Eurovision, in European festivals, and on the TV programme
300 Million . »- [Read full testimony]
- « I have a story about 'El bimbó', a song that shaped us in those difficult moments in Colonia Dignidad. It was a song with a tropical rhythm that was very trendy in the 1970s. It was played every day on the radio. Also on Eurovision, in European festivals, and on the TV programme
- « In Colonia Dignidad, they played Swan Lake by