Some good news has just been announced for the Historical Memory movement in Cádiz province: the Diputación de Cádiz has upped its budget for projects in this field in 2024 to a total of 400,000 euros. The decision was announced by Javier Vidal, deputy vice-president of the organisation, at aSeguir leyendo…

El vicepresidente segundo de la Diputación de Cádiz, Javier Vidal, atiende la explicación del presidente del Foro, Fran Hidalgo, sobre el contenido de la Casa de la Memoria.

The deputy vice-president of the Cádiz provincial authority (Diputación de Cádiz), Javier Vidal, visited the Casa de la Memoria La Sauceda on Monday 20 November, and was welcomed by members of the board of the Casa de la Memoria Association and the Forum for the Memory of the Campo deSeguir leyendo…

Forgotten Places: Barcelona and the Spanish Civil War.

In today’s edition we have news of a route to commemorate victims of Franco in Espera, another mass grave being found in Trebujena, the PSOE accuses right-wing and far right parties of attacking historical memory and there’s a brand new book in English which will delight those with an interestSeguir leyendo…

Visita a fosa común en el cementerio municipal de Trebujena.

Trebujena council has announced that another mass grave containing six bodies has been found during the exhumation works that are being carried out in the cemetery. The announcement was made by the Historical Memory councillor, Ana Luisa Robredo, to coincide with the visit by the provincial government’s head of HistoricalSeguir leyendo…

La diputada provincial Lucia Trujillo, con el alcalde y concejales de Espera.

This week the mayor of Espera, Pedro Romero, and the councillor for Democratic Memory, José María Sánchez, presented a project called ‘Adoquines de la Memoria’ to the provincial government’s head of Democratic Development, Lucía Trujillo. The initiative is to pay tribute to the 69 people who were killed by theSeguir leyendo…

Marcha conmemorativa de La Desbandá

This week marks the anniversary of La Desbandá, the time in February 1937 when thousands of people from all over Andalucía tried to walk from Málaga to Almería, hoping to get away from Franco’s forces and the threats made by Queipo de Llano against the innocent population. Between 100,000 andSeguir leyendo…

Previous attempts to take action against perpetrators of crimes under the Franco regime have always failed because of the 1977 Amnesty Law.

The coalition government of PSOE and Unidas Podemos are hoping it will be possible for crimes committed during the Franco regime to be punished under the new Democratic Memory Law in future. They have just filed a last-minute amendment to this effect in the draft law, but have stopped shortSeguir leyendo…

Inauguración como Lugar de Memoria Democrática a la fosa común del Cementerio de Puerto Real (2018).

Reflections From My Desk, by Debbie Eade There were two important dates for the Historical Memory movement in Spain last week. The first was Sunday 18 July, which marked 85 years since the Civil War began, when Franco brought troops by air and sea to the Campo de Gibraltar areaSeguir leyendo…

La Voz de la Memoria in english.

On Sunday 20 June a book called Testimonios was presented in Jimena. Cádiz city hall has removed a plaque from a building in which the poet José María Pemán was born. In Valencia, two people have been fined 4,000 euros each for carrying Francoist flags. In Murcia, the regional governmentSeguir leyendo…

Francisca Saraiba Acedo, vecina de San Pablo, de 94 años, en un momento del acto en el que también se recordó a su padre, José Saraiba Saraiba, que fue asesinado en 1937.

On Sunday 20 June there was a presentation at the Casa de la Cultura in Jimena de la Frontera, of a book called ‘Testimonios’ which contains the transcripts of interviews given to the Foro por la Memoria del Campo de Gibraltar by local people who are hoping to recover theSeguir leyendo…

Retirada de la placa (Foto: web municipal).

Cádiz city hall has removed a plaque from the outside of a property in Calle Isabel La Católica, which is where José María Pemán was born. The building currently houses the council’s Social Services department. The plaque showed a female figure holding an instrument on the right hand side andSeguir leyendo…