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At mass grave exhumation, daughter of Spanish Civil War victim seeks closure

Benita Navacerrada Lopez walks as she holds a picture of her father Facundo Navacerrada Perdiguero who was one of the people who were killed by the forces of dictator Francisco Franco and for whom members of the Aranzadi Science Society are searching for in a mass grave in the Colmenar Viejo cemetery, Spain, on 9th August, 2023.

Colmenar Viejo, Spain Reuters Benita Navacerrada is a 91-year-old Spanish woman with a yearning to know where her father was buried more than 80 years ago. She hopes the answer will lie in an exhumation outside Madrid of the remains of more than 100 people who were executed by forces of late dictator Francisco Franco […]

Spain to begin exhumation of 128 Civil War victims from burial complex – media

Relatives of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco carry the coffin after the exhumation at The Valle de los Caidosmin San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, on 24th October 2019.

Madrid, SpainReuters Forensic scientists will on Monday begin the exhumation of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from a vast burial complex near Madrid, El Pais newspaper reported.  It will be the first exhumation of its kind involving people whose bodies were moved from elsewhere after the 1936-1939 war and reburied without their families’ […]