More than 100,000 people disappeared during the civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.

The vast hillside mausoleum was built after the civil war by Franco’s regime — in part by the forced labour of 20,000 political prisoners – Copyright POOL/AFP ...

(AP) It was Alejandrina Torres’ first time back in her native village since Shining Path rebels cut her parents’ throats while she hid, a terrified 4-year-old, beneath the skirts of a neighbor. She ...

Republican identity and Spanish memory politics -- Memory idioms and the representation of Republican loss within the confines of a Francoist discourse on the past -- Materialisations of the dead ...