These are Félix Rodríguez Arana (naturally from Tolosa and resident of Pasaia, Gipuzkoa), Francisco de la Cruz Orellana, resident of Quintana de la Serena (Badajoz), and Hipólito Berasategi Alcalde, born in Briviesca (Burgos).
Three victims of the civil war and the subsequent repression of the Franco side, residents of a town in Badajoz, Burgos and Gipuzkoa and buried in different places in Euskadi, have been identified and their discovery reported to their families.
As reported by the Institute for Memory, Gogora, to the militiaman Felix Rodríguez Arana (a native of Tolosa and resident of Pasaia, Gipuzkoa), affiliated with the UGT who fought in the battalions ‘Gipuzkoa’ and ‘Karl Liebknecht’, has been identified after his remains appeared in a common grave in the Begoña cemetery in 2022, along with those of 43 other gudaris and militia members.
The second identified is the resident of Quintana de la Serena (Badajoz) Francisco de la Cruz Orellana, a farmer, married and father of two children, who died as a victim of the fierce Franco repression unleashed in Extremadura, who was imprisoned in the Orduña prison (Bizkaia), and whose remains were found in the cemetery of the said city. This is the ninth deceased identified at that cemetery, Gogora said.
The last one identified is Mayor Hipólito Berasategiborn in Briviesca (Burgos) and resident of Donostia-San Sebastián, who was arrested and taken to the prison of Ondarreta (San Sebastián), where he was executed in November 1936.
Gogora specifies that this man’s case “is of particular importance” because it is the first case of identification of one of those executed and disappeared after passing through Ondarreta prison. He points out that since he was shot in early November 1936, the whereabouts of his body were unknown.
Gogora is trying to identify the remains of seventy people that have been exhumed Orduña cemetery during the excavations carried out in 2014 and 2022. To do this, it is in contact with 65 families of those who died in prison to take DNA samples and then compare them.
The next December 2Gogora will deliver the remains of Bernardo Rodríguez Rincon, also a victim of the Franco prison of Orduña. The birth will take place at the Legorreta Cemetery, after which the family will proceed with the burial in a private ceremony.
Source: EITB
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