Pamplona-Iruña. The exhibit “José Alfaro: Exile and Dignity,” organized by the Institute of Memory in Navarre will be available March 25-April 25th at the Planetarium in Pamplona-Iruña. The photos extracted from the 229 negatives catalogued, and data conserved by Alfaro's family represent his decade of life in exile in France with scenes of family visits, snapshots taken at work, with other fellow exiles or greeting children evacuated from Bizkaia.
The exhibit includes 50 photos published in a catalog, accompanied by a series of phrases culled from the document written by Alfaro himself in 1968 entitled, “Memorial to the Prosecutors in Courts for the Third Family. Commission to Study the Problem of the Retired without Retiring,” in which he claimed the necessity of a retirement pension and reflected that with great courage specially on the times in which it was written, mentioning also the injustices he suffered.
After the military coup, Jose Alfaro, who had proclaimed the Republic from the balcony of the Tafalla Town Hall on April 14, 1931, was arrested on July 29, 1936 and held in the local jail until August 7th of the same year, a personal favor from a relative enables his release from prison and his transfer to Donibane Lohizune. He then begins a long exile of more than ten years in Iparralde and France.
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