Minister Artolazabal led the delegation of the Basque government in Castuera (Badajoz). Of the 3,981 recorded prisoners held in Orduña Prison between 1937 and 1941, 2,035 were from Extremadura, most of them peasants subject to fascist repression.
Euskaraz irakurri: Extremadurara bidaia, Urduñan hobik ateratako 71 pertsonak identifikatzen saiatzeko
Beatriz Artolazabal, Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy of the Basque government, led today in Castuera, Badajoz, the Basque government delegation that traveled to Extremadura to try to identify the exhumed remains of 71 people who had already been recovered during the two excavation campaigns. in June 2014 and December 2022 in the cemetery of Orduña.
For example, the counsel has presented to the media, historical memory associations and relatives of prisoners who died in Orduña Prison (from the Civil War and the first post-war) the excavation work carried out at the cemetery of the municipality of Biscayne and thus treats search for possible relatives , eight decades later.
Most of the prisoners were transferred from the city of Extremadura to Orduña prison they were farmers who suffered fascist repression. In memory of these people, as well as other freedom fighters, counsel said that both they and their families “have the right to have their remains located, exhumed and identified; the right to honor, mourn, place a flower in his grave.”
Counsel recalled that of the 3981 prisoners that were registered in Orduña prison between 1937 and 1941, 2035 came from Extremadura. In addition, many of them were through the Castuera Concentration CampThat is why the Basque delegation traveled to this town in Badajoz.
“They died from the inhumane conditions they had to endure in Orduña: cold, hunger, overcrowding, disease”
“More than 2,000 people were displaced in trains more than 700 km away, doubly isolating and punishing them and their families. The punishment of brutal repression was added to the brutality of uprooting. And some of them never returned They died because of the inhumane conditions they had to endure in Orduña: cold, hunger, overcrowding, disease,” Beatriz Artolazabal lamented.
It is known from existing historical documentation that, Of the 225 prisoners who died in Orduña prison, more than half (127) were from Extremadura (125 from Badajoz and 2 from Cáceres).and that 87 of them have been transferred from Castuera Prison.
These dead prisoners from Extremadura were joined 41 Castilian-La Mancha (34 from Ciudad Real, 4 from Toledo and 3 from Albacete), 22 were transferred from Malaga prison, 7 from Tarragona and the remaining 28 came from other provinces of the state.
Gogora, the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, as responsible for coordinating efforts to identify the victims, has so far managed to contact 41 families of victims from Vizcaya Prison, with which he has already managed to take DNA samples.
The Basque delegation has traveled to Castuera to appeal from there to relatives of prisoners who died in Orduña prison to get in touch and learn more about the identification process. This can be done by calling or writing to 944 032 845 / gogora@euskadi.eus.
The goal is to contact as many relatives as possible who can donate DNA to carry out the genetic identification of the remains.
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Source: EITB
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