The Museum collects testimonies from former political prisoners, their family and friends in order to constitute a collection and to preserve the memories of those involved in the resistance and fight against the fascist portuguese dictatorship.
Technical team:
Aida Rechena
Ângela Alves
António Cruz
Rosalina Carmona
Teresa Albino
Testimony of Ana Pedro
Blood relationship: daughter
Political prisoner: Manuel Pedro
Prisoner’s history
Arrested between 13.02.1958 and 10.05.1958 (2 months and 26 days)
Arrested on 20.05.1959. Judged on 08.05.1960 and convicted to 2 years and security measures.
Released on bail on 14.12.1964 (5 years, 6 months and 22 days)
Arrested on 25.05.1969. Judged on 07.03.1970 and sentenced to 5 years and 4 months.
Released on 27.04.1974 (4 years, 11 months and 2 days)
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 20.03.1964 and 14.04.1964 (21 days) and between 13.03.1970 and 27.04.1974 (4 years, 1 month and 14 days)
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Testimony of Carlos Vitoriano
Blood relationship: son
Political prisoner: José Vitoriano
Prisoner’s history
Arrested on 30.06.1948 and convicted to 2 years and 6 months.
Released on 14.05.1951 (2 years, 10 months and 13 days)
Arrested on 22.01.1953. Judged on December 1956 and sentenced to 4 years and 8 months.
Released on 05.08.1966 (13 years, 6 months and 12 days)
Imprisoned for a total of 17 years.
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 11.06.1949 and 14.05.1951
(1 year, 11 months and 3 days) and between 01.06.1954 and 02.08.1966 (12 years, 2 months and 1 day)
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Testimony of Herculana Velez
Blood relationship: daughter
Political prisoner: Joaquim Diogo Velez
Prisoner’s history
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 25.04.1950 and 02.11.1950 (6 months and 6 days) and between 28.12.1961 and 31.10.1968 (6 years, 10 months and 3 days)
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Testimony of Mónica Braz de Almeida
Blood relationship: daughter
Political prisoner: António Almeida
Prisoner’s history
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between December 1967 and December 1969 (2 years)
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Testimony of Maria Luísa Correia Azevedo d´Espiney
Blood relationship: daughter
Political prisoner: Sérgio António Pires de Carvalho d’Espiney
Prisoner’s history
Arrested on 30.07.1967. Judged on 01.06.1968 (10 months and 1 day)
Released on November 1972
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 17.06.1968 and 16.04.1970 (Released on bail) (1 year, 9 months and 28 days)
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Testimony of Margarida Machado
Blood relationship: daughter
Political prisoner: João Joaquim Machado
Prisoner’s history
Arrested on 31.05.1945 and released on 22.10.1945 (4 months and 19 days)
Arrested on 05.08.1947 and released on 28.11.1947 (3 months and 23 days)
Arrested on 03.07.1949. Judged on 1949. Released on 25.11.1951 (2 years, 4 months and 22 days)
Arrested on 1958 and released in the same year (1 year +/-)
Arrested on 13.05.1962 and sentenced to 2 years and 8 months and security measures.
On 14.05.1962 was taken to the Prison of Caxias. Released on 21.02.1968 (5 years, 9 months and 8 days)
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 16.03.1950 and 25.11.1951 (1 year, 8 months and 9 days).
In the year 1967 he was imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche.
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Testimony of Maria Eugénia Varela Gomes
Blood relationship: daughter
Political prisoner: Coronel João Maria Melo Varela Gomes
Prisoner’s history
Arrested on 01.01.1962. Judged on 29.07.1964 and sentenced to 10 years.
Imprisoned for a total of 6 years.
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 25.09.1964 and 08.09.1967 (2 years, 11 months and 12 days)
There is a reference indicating that he was at the Fortress of Peniche Prison during the year 1968.
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Testimonies of Rui Ramos e Mabília Ramos
Blood relationship: daughter and son
Political prisoner: Adolfo Assis Ramos
Prisoner’s history
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 16.03.1957 and 17.11.1964 (7 years, 8 months and 1 day)
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Testimonies of Eulália Miranda e Silvina Miranda
Blood relationship: daughters
Political prisoner: Dinis Miranda
Prisoner’s history
Arrested on 11.02.1949 and released on 23.12.1952 (3 years, 10 months and 12 days)
Arrested on 17.03.1955 and released on 26.07.1955 (4 months and 9 days)
Arrested on 23.01.1959 and released on 16.12.1959 (10 months and 22 days)
Arrested on 23.05.1967 and released on 27.04.1974 (6 years, 11 months and 4 days)
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 08.08.1967 and 27.04.1974 (6 years, 8 months and 19 days)
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Testimonies of Mário Rui Sena Lopes e José António Sena Lopes
Blood relationship: sons
Political prisoner: Mário Vítor Sena Lopes
Prisoner’s history
Arrested on 24.01.1953. Sentenced to 2 years and security measures
Last liberation on 18.04.1974
Imprisoned in the Fortress of Peniche between 03.04.1962 and 21.11.1966 (4 years, 7 months and 18 days)