Ciudad Real.- The delegate of the Government of Spain in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, and the subdelegate of the Government in the province, David Broceño, have visited this exhibition space, which for two and a half months, compiles stories that the researchers have found in old papers and in the mouths of many people, descendants, who have been taking them from locality to locality and from life to life of those who were killed, it is estimated that 4,000 people in the different graves distributed throughout the province, and which is dealt with the Democratic Memory Law, which is little more than a year in force.
A research and a thorough study that has led to the reunion of the past and the present of many families. The government delegate wanted to summarize the emotion of this exhibition in two words “dignify and make visible”. And he added that it is about “dignifying those who left us to defend freedom, but also the families who for many years have had to suffer persecution for defending that freedom”, and “making visible with the images and these small objects that have many stories and many emotions behind”.
“This is one of the objectives of the Government of Spain – Tolón continued – since it has contributed an investment of one million euros to Castilla La Mancha in recent years to make visible and dignify the memory “of those who have been hidden“.
The second vice-president of the Board of Communities, José Manuel Caballero, stressed during his speech “that this exhibition gives the voice to the victims, and their families” and congratulated all the institutions involved for the work they carry out “what you do has a lot to do with the past but above all with the present and with the future because we cannot change history but we can draw conclusions and face in better conditions the challenges of the present and the future”.
“It is not an exhibition about the past, but above all the present and that helps us think about the present,” warns Jorge Moreno, curator of the exhibition.