The mayor of the municipality, Maialen Gurrutxaga, led the tour, which included a visit to the mass graves where the 14 gudaris and militiamen were buried, which were excavated in 2012 by the Aranzadi Science Society. The annual event concluded with a floral offering.
Institutional representatives, various commemorative associations and Sabino Arana Fundazioa have once again participated in the floral offering organized annually by the Elgoibar City Council in tribute to the 14 gudaris and militiamen who died on September 25, 1936 on the Zirardamendi-Aiastia front (San Miguel), trying to stop Franco’s advance on Basque territory.
The event was held in memory of José Txintxurreta, Paulino Beraza, Juan Zabala, Blas Larrazeleta, Ambrosio Etxebarria, Felipe Elorriaga, Sabin Atutxa, Emeterio Llavori, Eusebio Gaubeka, Juan Agirre, Imanol Etxebarria, Marcelino Gandarias, Miguel Palacio and Félix Arbulu.
The mayor of the municipality, Maialen Gurrutxaga, led the tour, during which they visited the communal graves where the 14 gudaris and militiamen were buried, and which the Aranzadi Science Society exhumed in 2012. The march ended with a floral offering at the cross that the gudaris José Landa and José María Otxoa from Txintxetu placed in his memory in 1952. Family, friends and various authorities and institutional representatives also took part in the event.
Among them were the PNV spokesman in Congress, Aitor Esteban; the director of the Berango Iron Belt Memorial Museum, Aitor Miñambres; the parliamentarian María Eugenia Arrizabalaga; Bitori Zabala, director of budgetary policy at the Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa; the former mayor of Elgoibar, Alfredo Etxeberria; and members of the current corporation of this council, such as Andrea Arriola, Aitor Iriondo, Iñigo Loiola and Jon Zubiaurre.
Sabino Arana Fundazioa historian Iñaki Goiogana, during his visit to the mass graves, recalled “the sacrifice” of these young gudaris and militiamen, and stressed “the need to defend historical memory as a way of coexistence and reconciliation.”
Source: EITB
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