In the city of Zaragoza, on April 6th of 1939, 512 women and 53 children were moved from Torrero?s prison to the Qualified jail of Predicadores. The accumulation, the bad conditions of the building, the punishments, the vexations, the bad supply and the violence did of Predicator?s one of the hardest prison of the postwar period: a real hell. Their only crime in most cases was be mothers, wifes or daughters of republican men. They were denied the right of being political prisoners as they were just considered common prisoners. Since 1939 up to its definitive closing in 1955, a great number of women went through its dependences, some of them with their children, ?protected? by the Royal decree of November 14, 1930, where it was established that the small children could join prison with their mothers until they were fulfilling the age of four years. The above mentioned decree would suffer a modification on march 30, 1940, by means of an order of the Department of Justice by which the age of the child was reduced at the age of three. Many of them would not manage to survive, luckier others were put at liberty together with their mothers or delivered to some relative. But there were others who accompanied their mothers in a long periplus, going of jail in jail, until they were three that they were separated from them, join institutions of welfare under the guardianship of the State, or given in adoption without previous assent of their progenitors or legal representatives. All of them, held captive by the victors and labelled red children must go through a long rehabilitation process that became loyal and obedient subjects of the New State.

En la ciudad de Zaragoza el d?a 6 de abril de 1939, desde la c?rcel de Torrero, 512 mujeres y 53 ni?os fueron trasladados a la Prisi?n Habilitada de Predicadores. El hacinamiento, las malas condiciones del edificio, los castigos, las vejaciones, la mala alimentaci?n y la violencia hicieron de Predicadores una de las c?rceles m?s duras de la posguerra; un verdadero infierno. Condenadas en su mayor?a por ser madres, esposas o hermanas de republicanos, se les neg? incluso el derecho a llamarse pol?ticas pues todas ellas fueron clasificadas como comunes. Desde 1939 hasta su cierre definitivo en 1955, un gran n?mero de mujeres pas? por sus estancias; algunas de ellas con sus hijos, ?amparadas? por el Real Decreto de 14 de noviembre de 1930, que establec?a la permanencia en prisi?n de los ni?os menores de cuatro a?os con sus madres. Una Orden del Ministerio de Justicia de 30 de marzo de 1940 rebajar?a la edad del ni?o a los tres a?os. Muchos de ellos no lograr?an sobrevivir, otros m?s afortunados fueron puestos en libertad junto con sus madres o entregados a alg?n familiar. Pero hubo otros que acompa?aron a sus madres en un largo periplo, de c?rcel en c?rcel, hasta que a los tres a?os fueron separados de ?stas, ingresando en instituciones de beneficencia tuteladas por el Estado o dados en adopci?n sin previo consentimiento de sus progenitores o representantes legales1. Todos ellos, cautivos de los vencedores y etiquetados como hijos de rojos debieron pasar por un largo proceso de reeducaci?n que los convirtiera en fieles y d?ciles s?bditos del Nuevo Estado.