OF WEDNESDAY 5/7 ON TUESDAY 30/4
MUSEUM OF PREHISTORY & THE ETHNO. Corona, 36
A work called is going around the Valencian stages L’Abrador which is based on the story of Leoncio Badía, a republican who was sent by the Francoists to the municipal cemetery of Paterna to bury "his own". Loser of that fratricidal battle that was the Spanish Civil War, a small victory was claimed by placing the shot in a dignified position and cutting out buttons and pieces that identified them so that later they could tell their relatives where they were buried. It is one of the stories left by the shameful pits of the Franco regime on which the Diputació de Valencia has prepared a conference program, round tables, musical performances, performing arts and cinema with which it is intended to promote historical memory. Two of the museums of the provincial institution, the Museum of Prehistory and L’Etno, they will play their part with two exhibitions. Archeology of memory recover objects exhumed in the pits (espadrilles, pipes, shirts…), others kept by the relatives of those who were reprisaled, which tell us about the life stories of the people who were shot and the repression mechanisms of the dictatorship. 2238. Paternal, place of perpetration and memory takes us through the houses of the reprisaled, by the mass graves and by the Paterna cemetery - where there are 150 documented pits, hence the name "paredón d'Espanya"—and offers us testimonies from family members that help us understand the production mechanisms, transmission and custody of the memories of Franco's repression. AU
