The post-war period in Spain; hunger by Ignacio Victoria

                     INTERVIEW

My name is Ignacio Victoria and I am going to interview my grandmother. She is 79 years old and she was born in La Union, the village where she spent her childhood and where she lives now too. She has two sisters Jerónima and Josefa, and two brothers Miguel and Lico so they were 5. Her father died really early and she spent her childhood with her mother who was a flower seller. Her mother had to go to Cartagena to sell the flowers so my grandmother did the housework. When she was 16 years old she started to work in a richman´s house in Cartagena and then in other houses. She didn’t go to school because she had to help her mother and she couldn’t “waste” that time. She was very young during the Civil War so she didn’t remember anything but she spent her childhood during the Post-War Period and she remembers that she was very hungry and the life was so difficult at that time because of the censure and the dictatorship. At that time she only dreamed of living in peace and with happiness. She said that nowadays she only expects that her sons will be good men with a good job and a family and they pray for all our family’s health.

 She was 16 or 17 years old when she met my grandfather and they were a couple for six or seven years and when she was 23 years old she married my grandfather and they were married until my grandfather died 14 years ago. My grandfather worked making engines and then he became an electrician. Her best memory was when she met her husband and her worst memories when her mother and her husband died.

Finally she says that she can’t understand why people say that now the youth is worst or better than at that time, she thinks that now there are good people and bad people as there have always been including the old times, but she thinks that it is true that nowadays, because of the Internet and the new technologies, young people use those gadgets incorrectly and they do bad things.