I worried the secret police would use our daughter to pressure us and said this to my husband. He said when a person joins this sort of thing, they h… - Lilica Boal

I was not under suspicion because I was studying on a loan given by the Portuguese Youth Organisation, a movement led by the fascist government and based, I came to understand, on the Hitler Youth. What the police wanted to do was warn me not to mix with those ‘communists’ at the house of the students of the empire.

When I came to study in Portugal, Guilherme’s family welcomed me, and took me to visit the families of the other political prisoners in Tarrafal.

We were told that in two days we would be leaving and that we could only take 5kg.