In a collaboration between the Basque government and the Aranzadi Society, they have already contacted 36 families of Franco victims, 17 of which have already donated a DNA sample for possible future identification.
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The Basque government is already working on identification 40 remains of Franco victims found in Orduña cemeterywithin the Basque government’s “Search for the Disappeared from the Civil War” program, in agreement with the Aranzadi Science Society and with the collaboration of the Orduña City Council, according to a note from the Gasteiz executive.
The Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy Beatriz Artolazabal He visited the cemetery of Orduña this Saturday to follow the excavation work that has been taking place since Tuesday. Together with her, José Antonio Rodríguez Ranz, Deputy Minister for Human Rights, Remembrance and Cooperation, and Aintzane Ezenarro, Director of the Institute for Remembrance, Society and Human Rights, Gogora were also present.
The excavations of these days continue the work begun in 2014 in the same cemetery, when the remains of 14 victims were rescued with the aim of rescuing and identifying the prisoners who They died in the concentration camp and subsequent prison of this city.
Artolazabal has referred to the fact that today a new process of identification and delivery to the next of kin begins. In fact, they have already contacted 36 families, of which 17 have already donated a DNA sample for possible future identification.
“We hope that with the genetic testing that will be performed on these 40 newly excavated remains, we will be able to identify them and provide an answer to the families who continue to search for their loved ones and close the cycle of family mourning.” relatives of two victims from Franco’s prison who attended the event.
Jailed people from all over the state
The historical documentation of these burials and the testimonies collected suggest that the human remains buried in the area excavated today belong to prisoners who died between February and June 1941from Orduña Central Prison.
It is also known that the prisoners of that time, came from places far from EuskadiThus, most of the people who died while imprisoned in Orduña were natives of the communities of Extremadura, Andalusia, Castilla la Mancha and Catalonia. In total, it is estimated that at least 225 people died in what was first a concentration camp (1937-1939) and later a prison (1939-1941).
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