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Families of the disappeared and researchers fight fans outside of the publishing industry to Franco's repression not forget
D. BARCALA / P. MADRID CAMPELO 10/01/2011 8:20 Updated: 10/01/2011 23:31
La Barranca families gathered in the seventies in the huge pit Rioja to avoid some works, as Jesus tells Vicente Aguirre 'You never Nothing happened. " Related News
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are craftsmen of memory. Amateur writers, researchers or relatives of victims occasional survive outside the publishing industry to fight with his own savings for their memories be forgotten that the Franco always looked for the black history of Spain. Hundreds of these fighters have been supported in recent years in small print shops, publishers and even online partnerships to avoid the neglect of Franco barbarism.
"I want that in a thousand years the whole world know who the murderers of my father in Uncastillo (Zaragoza)." That is why Jesus Pueyo, 93, wrote in 2004 From Hell to Paradise. In a small press of a friend of Irun, launched a few copies to send to the king, the president Government and other authorities for help to find her father, missing since that day in August 1936 when, at age 13, went to get the field "because he called the Civil Guard." "The Falangists killed seven family members," she recalls by phone from his home in Hendaye (France).
"Everybody knows who the murderers," said Pueyo
since 1978 has not stopped looking for truth with the values his father taught him. "In the few years I enjoyed the good fortune to have him by my side, I instilled his nobility and courage with which he defended their right to own a piece of land to work, unaware that this demand would cost life. His memory has been the compass that has guided me throughout my life, "says the fourth page of his book, essential to know first hand the repression in Uncastillo.
Dedication Pueyo book is repeated in each of the Copies of these books published in the heat of the movement of historical memory in the last decade. "To the memory of the martyrs of the Republic and freedom. To his widow, children and other relatives, fear and hunger suffered. "So the retiree spends Antonio Ontañón, 77, rescued from oblivion, edited by himself with 13,000 euros that still pays in installments".
This former employee of Banco Bilbao decided devote his retirement to investigate the deaths Ciriego Cemetery in Santander. "I have no family shot there. Although for me it is as if all those buried there were my parents because they died from his republican ideas, which are mine," he explains. Ontañón toured the courts in Cantabria for naming each of the 850 people killed between 1937 and 1948 in the walls of Ciriego, lying in the ditches in the cemetery.
"I never thought I could make money with the book," says one of the authors
A truckload of dead
"researchers found that every day killed 16 people because it was the capacity of the truck," he recalls. One of the biggest rewards Ontañón received for the book was a letter of response sent from José Saramago Lanzarote, dated July 1, 2003: "Thanks for the shocking book you sent me. Justice and is always late has been slow. People like you do still believe in the possibility of a just world. " Have
family or not, the authors of these humble studios are united by the quest for the truth of their land. "I've always been interested in the Civil War, although my family was right. In 2002, after visiting 600 families and after five years of work, I decided to publish the book of repression in La Rioja nadae_SDRq This never happened, city official explains songwriter and Jesus Vicente Aguirre, the seventies, he joined the folk group called Carmen, Jesus and Iñaki, who composed La Barranca in honor of the 400 victims of fascism buried in that pasture Rioja.
"I visited 600 families in five years," says Jesus Vicente Aguirre
5,800 copies
"I picked up the gauntlet had been thrown some historians and used more than 1,500 photos," said Aguirre. In your case, I got a publisher to publish his study. "In Ochoa told me to cover the cost, but never thought I could make money from the book," he admits after 5,800 copies have sold at 35 euros, thanks to Republican ateneos presentations throughout Spain.
nothing ever happened here includes local history research with field experience Aguirre. In the chapter on La Barranca gathers the testimonies of hundreds of widows "every November 2, All Souls' Day, and after November 1, the day of All Saints, gathered since 1976 to protect the land where they were relatives of the impending construction of a parking lot.
"My mother always said we should tell. As you shine sparkle in their eyes you must come here every year. 'And I'll be here until you no longer see," explains in the book Jacqueline Escalona Díez, granddaughter of one of the victims, who, as mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, symbolizes resistance against oblivion. A valuable photographic archive
The self-published book authors have recovered a valuable archive of family photographs. The image on the right corresponds to members of the JSU (Unified Socialist Youth) Uncastillo (Zaragoza) on May 25, 1935.
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