the first doctor arrived, but, not having any medicine to cure the prisoners, limited himself to just writing death certificates. Today, on the Museum of the Resistance, there's a quote of his: "I am not here to cure, but to sign death certificates". In the concentration camp of Tarrafal, there were several first-line communist leaders and cadres, subjected to various types of torture, since its establishment in 1936. Due to the large number of communists that came to the camp, the Communist Prison Organization of Tarrafal (OCTP) was quickly created. Here, the prisoners intended to maintain political debate, doctrinal training, analyze and systematize their own recent historical experience, be it the political situation or party line. However, they were faced with several difficulties, namely the lack of paper and pencils. Sometimes the isolation was so great that any information about what was going on in the world was seized upon, even scraps of paper lost on the floor. Most of the time, the newspaper had been used as toilet paper, which earned the name among the inmates of "shit radio", and was vividly used as a source of information. After 6 years imprisoned in Tarrafal, in 1942 the leader of the Portuguese Communist Party — Bento Gonçalves — dies, along with 4 other militants. In January 1954 it is closed due to the gain of the influence of anti-fascist forces and the defeat of Nazi-fascism in World War II. The "Frying Pan" The "Frying Pan" was meant to punish prisoners who disobeyed the rules. Also known as the "elimination chamber", or the "torture chamber", it was the form of punishment that most instilled fear upon the prisoners. According to Pedro Martins, the "Frying Pan" was created with the arrival of the second group of prisoners, where the punishments increased more and more and had the objective of quickly eliminating the antifascists physically. Before they entered, they were completely stripped naked. He described the "Frying Pan" as: Here, prisoners ate only bread and water, every other day. Torture was thus exacerbated along with starvation. It was described as "an open road to death in a place isolated from everything and everyone". Here, between 1937 and 1944, 30 prisoners died, 45 fell ill with malaria, with 14 deaths, and 52 obtained lung diseases. Prisoners could be kept in the "Frying Pan" for days, weeks, and even months. In total, 2824 days spent