Francoist repression
Culture

The concentration camp of the islands of San Simón and San Antón, in Galicia, declared a place of historical memory

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Archive photograph of a group of prisoners from San Simón Island, where thousands of people were tortured and murdered.EFE

The government has declared the islands of San Simón and San Antón, in the Vigo estuary, as a Place of Democratic Memory. On these islands, there was a Francoist concentration camp between October 1936 and March 1943, and more than 5,600 Republican prisoners passed through them.