We have been doing a large number of activities related to historical memory during this course 2021-2022. The last one was carried out by our students on 4th technological grade, as they recorded the famous tale “The old man and the bridge” by Ernest Hemingway, both in English and its Catalan translation. These recordings took place  in Hemingway street, just in front of  the huge new painting that’s portraiting the destruction of the bombings and next to the biggest Air Raid Shelter in town.

The famous tale is about the bombing of the Amposta bridge in April 1938, and shows  the suffering of thousands of people who had to leave their villages because of the bombings.

Ernest Hemingway was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. Throughout his life he had different contacts with the war, since 1918 he enlisted in the Red Cross and driving ambulances in Italy during World War II, working as a journalist, publishing and live isolated from urban society.

During the Civil War working as a war correspondent and reaches Tortosa on April 4, 1938 to cover the defense of the area of the Lower Ebro before the advance of Franco ‘s troops: “At two this afternoon, Tortosa was a city almost demolished, evacuated by civilians and no soldiers. Twenty – four kilometers above was fought fiercely to protect Tortosa, the fascist objective in its advanced toward the sea. ” And it becomes one of the last to leave the field chroniclers of the Battle of the Ebro.

His last chronicle was the April 18, 1938, near Amposta and hidden behind a field next to the road onions Tortosa and says: “The Ebro Delta has a good, rich soil, and where they grow onions, tomorrow there will be a battle. ”

L’home vell i el pont d’Ernest Hemingway