The stays of the primary 5 victims of Francoism recognized after being exhumed from the Orduña cemetery will return this coming Saturday, July 29, along with their households. Four of the victims have been from Badajoz and a fifth from Toledo, though their stays had been buried for years within the Biscayan city of Orduña together with 66 different individuals.
Those recognized are Fructuoso LLorens Tolesano from Extremadura, Alfonso Tena Prieto, and the brothers Manuel and Salvador del Amo Jiménez and Alejandro Gómez Hidalgo from Toledo.
Visit to the cemetery and supply of the stays
This Saturday at 11:30 a.m., subsequent to the sculpture “Duintasuna” from the Columbarium of Dignity in Orduña, the Minister for Equality, Justice and Social Policies of the Basque Government, Nerea Melgosa, and the Deputy Minister for Human Rights, Memory and Cooperation, José Antonio Rodríguez Ranz, will ship the recognized stays of their kinfolk to the households.
The occasion may also be attended by Aintzane Ezenarro, director of Gogora, the mayor of Orduña, Iker Santocildes, and Lourdes Herrasti, anthropologist from the Aranzadi Science Society.
Previously, at 11:00 a.m., the councilor and the mayor will obtain the households of these recognized and can accompany them to the cemetery in order that they will go to the place the place the stays of their kinfolk have rested and be taught the small print of the exhumation and identification work.
Gogora-Basque Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights continues to work to establish the 71 victims exhumed within the Orduña cemetery.
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