The Fisabio Foundation and the University of Valencia have identified three victims of the Civil War in the Alicante cemetery and one in the Castellón cemetery in a work carried out with agreement from the Generalitat, through the Ministry of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality.
In grave 36 of the Alicante cemetery, two people have been identified out of the 22 bodies recovered after the excavation of the grave, work that was promoted by the Aspe City Council and paid for by the Ministry, and which took place during the months of October and November 2021. The remains of the victims showed signs of violence having been murdered between June 26 and July 17, 1941, mostly from the town of Aspe and surrounds.
In grave 33, the exhumation work was carried out between January and April of last year, promoted by the Asociación de Familiares de los Represaliados del Franquismo of the Alicante Cemetery, tasks that allowed exhumation of the remains of 18 victims of Franco’s repression, one of whom has now been identified. The victims were shot between December 17, 1941 and February 12, 1942, all coming from various towns in Alicante.
This is the first identification of victims in the Alicante cemetery after two previous excavations which were unsuccessful.
In row 2 of the Castellón cemetery, the exhumation work was carried out between the months of November and December 2020, tasks that made it possible to locate the remains of the 18 victims executed between October 11 and December 3. November 1939, one of them also now identified. The process began at the request of 4 families of these victims, interested in carrying out the excavation and exhumation work, to which more relatives were added.
The work to identify the victims continues through the collaboration of the Ministry of Participation, Transparency, Cooperation and Democratic Quality, the Fisabio Foundation and the University of Valencia.
