The Struggle to Recover the 'Red Money' Seized in Francoism: "My Grandmother Had to Start From Scratch"

At the end of the thirties, Amadeo Bordalba Armengol made his living as a merchant. He owned a brewery and did nothing wrong. But, overnight, the war broke out. And in a little less than two years, the Francoist troops took their native Lleida. That's when this photography entrepreneur had to put all his savings into the hands of the Francoist authorities, who only a few months earlier had created a whole legal framework to seize the red money "…