Tarrafal Stationery Photographs by Francesco Paleari

Photographs by Francesco Paleari

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many of which the younger generations have abandoned

A historic building is a legend of one’s own time

familiar to the point of obliviousness

Tarrafal Stationery Photographs by Francesco PaleariWhen the concentration camp was built in 1936 Cape Verdeoff the coast of West Africawas a Portuguese colony. The direct order came from Portuguese dictator Antonio Oliveira Salazar for the construction of the camp to house political prisoners in the small village of Tarrafal. The camp became known as the camp of slow death. In 1949, Pinas grandfather Guilherme da Costa Carvalhoa young communist militant was sent to the camp. Later that year Guilhermes