Lehendakari, Imanol Pradles, asked the families of 253 bascra and baskets deported to the Nazi campos between 1940 and 1945 for not having given them public recognition and emphasize that “we are obliged to protect protection from democracy.”
Pradelles mentioned in these terms in the act “Nazimoarence Kiwistatako Euskaldunak Gugan 1945-2025. The anniversary of the liberation.
The appointment was present, among other things, in the Basque vice -minister for human rights, memory and covation, Artritxu Marañn; Gogor Director Alberto Alonso, Director of Human Rights and Victims, Jagoba Alvarez; delegate of the central government in Eskadi, Marisol Garmedia; President of the Basque Parliament, Bakardso -Theeria; General Deputy Gipuzkoa, Aider Mendos; and ARARTEKO, Manuel Lesertois. They were also present at about 125 relatives of victims of deportation, members of associations, memorial organizations and funds that work in this area, reports Europa Press.
In total, 253 people from Eskadi and Navarra were deported to Nazi concentration camps from 1940 to 1945, 10 women. Of the total number 113 were killed, and many survivors did it shortly after serious health problems. “Let’s imagine your journey; fight against Franco; Exile; to be locked in the French field for interned; fight against Nazism; To be arrested and sent to a concentration camp, ”recalls Lendakari to add that“ there they stole several possessions that they had, they took their identity and appointed a cold number. ”
“They were overwhelmed, forced labor, annoyance, torture, malnutrition and temperatures below zero,” he said. Pradles added that “those who survived had nothing easy,” since “the democratic side that fought with their backs.” “First, denying them in the Charter of International Refugees, which they would not receive until 1951, and then allowed Franco to perpetuate themselves in power in the name of a very greater assumption, as did the Cold War against communism,” he recalls.
As emphasized, the Nazis tried to tear their “dignity and allies initially stole hope”, but “today we are here in order to recall and honor their memory,” as well as “asking for forgiveness during the time, not being publicly recognized,” he said. He also emphasized that this act serves to “protect the fact that most of them, and they could not know, democratic Eskadi for which they gave their lives.” Pradles defended himself that we must “be very attended by the struggle of these people and that“ we cannot banalize populism, extremisms or fanaticisms that cast doubt on democracy. ”
“We must step into discourses that revive ordinary authoritarianism, inventing one or more enemies in order to sow hatred and divide society, exploiting fear in their own benefits, causing lost greatness and returning to the past, which always represents itself as idyllic or representing charismatic leaders with quick and simple decisions that correct everything,” he said. For Pradles, “each generation is of historical responsibility”, and “ours is to protect and consolidate what has been fighting with those who are fulfilling today: peace, justice, freedom, democracy and especially human rights.
“Silence and forgetfulness”
For his part, the Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the Basque Government Maria Hesus San Hosa reminded the victims of deportation, “thousands of statelessness, which Redanshist, hatred of the Franco regime denied their Basque and Spanish nationality” and which also suffered “double victimization, for unfair silence and forgot that their lives were already surrounding their lives.”
During this act, the ausiovisual part prepared by the Pixel was projected, with the data on deportation, its measurement, as well as the context that led to the fact that this fact was silent, among other things, by the historian of Etsyhun Galparosoro, relative to three deported people; Juan Francisco Murillo, member of Amika Mautauzen, and Maria Hesus Amenbar, from the collective of illusion error (Hypuzkoa).
In addition, in this one, led by Maiten Salinas, they occupied Paul Evgenio Azurza, their daughter Asun Azurza and Lolu Madaraga, relatives of the pre -all -in -house Jose Maria Azurza Ostega, associated with UGD and died in Mautauzen on October 28, 1941 and a deporter, record. Portuguese (Bizkaia), respectively.
Eugenio Azurza grew up, not knowing too much data about his father, who, as the documentation showed from the moment he fought during the Civil War in Eskadi and was in Catalonia at the end of this competition. In February 1939, when the French border was crossed, in a massive outcome, it was locked in a concentration camp that opened on the beach of Algeria-Sur-Mer, along with another 80,000 people. In early April, he was transferred to the Basque Campo COO Gurs, and, like many others, the French authorities hired him, first in the Landas area, and then in the defense line from Nazism.
The circumstances of his detention and deportation are not known, but after passing through some fields, he was eventually killed in Mauthausen on October 28, 1941, just six months after this field reached. His granddaughter reported how “silence” noted the story of his family.
For her part, Lola Madaraga noted that her father, Pedro Madariaga, was integrated after the Basque government uprising in the fleet of the auxiliary war of the Basque government and fled to France at the end of the war in Eskadi, and the Great Brittani, where she received work as a sailor. She was only five years old. With the explosion of World War II in one of his trips, he was arrested by the Nazis and transferred to the first concentration camp in Austria.
Then he began a journey for him after several fields, until he was transferred to Dachau, from which he was liberated by the Americans on April 29, 1945. Since he could not return to Spain in the middle of Franco’s dictatorship, he moved to England, and there he returned to work in a shipping company that allowed him years.
Asun Madariaga stands for “vaccinating and talking with young people” from these things through the education system, “so that this does not happen again.” “My father always said that those who know each other are waging a war, so that those who do not know each other are killing each other,” he recalls to add that the “cheerful character” and “not hatred” were what allowed him to have a “normal and happy life” before his death in 64 years in 1970.
The artistic part of this act was adopted by Dantzaz Rentería. They interpreted the dance play “Basoa”, the adaptation of the original, inspired by the concentration camp of Gurs (France).
