{"id":5521,"date":"2020-08-30T09:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=5521"},"modified":"2020-08-30T09:58:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T16:58:32","slug":"spanish-familys-battle-of-manila-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/?p=5521","title":{"rendered":"Spanish family’s Battle of Manila ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The tragedy that befell a non-interned Spanish family is detailed a recent El Pa\u00eds article titled Anna Maria: The Spaniard who survived 16 bayonet wounds during the Battle of Manila<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 28 August 2020 article, by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Abad Li\u00f1\u00e1n, begins:<\/p>\n

“Anna Maria\u2019s first life began in Cebu City in the Philippines on August 23, 1938. That was the day she was brought into the world by her mother Aurora, the daughter of two Catalans from Cerdanyola del Vall\u00e8s who had immigrated to the Philippines to work in copra, the dried kernel of the coconut which is used in soaps and oils. Her father, Pl\u00e1cido Antonio, had left Onda in the Spanish province of Castell\u00f3n to work for the prosperous General Tobacco Company of the Philippines (CdF), the first Spanish multinational. In the end, the family moved to Cavite, south of the capital Manila, where speaking Spanish did not clash so much with chabacano, the creole language spoken by the local population.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Anna<\/a>

Anna Maria Aguilella arriving in Barcelona in 1946<\/p><\/div>At points, it is a very difficult story for me to read, because it echos what happened to my family during the Battle of Manila. In that instance, my mother and grandmother, together with their neighbors, were taken out of their homes in Manila by the Japanese to be shot. Luckily for them, and me, that didn’t happen. However, the outcome for Anna Maria’s family was far more tragic. I think that it is important to read for those who were inside, and outside of, the camps, showing the trauma that far outlasts the experience.<\/p>\n

Link to the full article in El Pa\u00eds<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tragedy that befell a non-interned Spanish family is detailed a recent El Pa\u00eds article titled Anna Maria: The Spaniard who survived 16 bayonet wounds during the Battle of Manila. The 28 August 2020 article, by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Abad Li\u00f1\u00e1n, begins: “Anna Maria\u2019s first life began in Cebu City in the Philippines on August 23, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,18,27],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p49RCb-1r3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5521"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5542,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5521\/revisions\/5542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5521"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philippineinternment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_folder&post=5521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}