Antiguo Cementerio del Carmen, Ponferrada, León.

Memoria Perdida - Spain's Lost Memory Antiguo Cementerio del Carmen, Ponferrada, León. Two men (Antonio Fernández Guerrero, 25, and JosàCanedo Fernández, 26) from the locality of Quilós, were shot here in front of the cemetery wall on 21 May 1942 and buried in a common grave. The cemetery was closed in 1965, and some graves relocated. But the common grave is probably still there and it is believed that it could hold the remains of 200 others, including 18 miners executed by the Guardia Civil in 1936 and the body of the legendary guerrilla fighter Manuel Girón, who died in 1951. 11/2016
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To this day the bodies of up to 114, 000 "disappeared from the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, and the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, 1939-1975, lie in unmarked mass graves in roadsides, on the edges of towns and villages, in ravines or in fields. The sites of the mass graves and related atrocity sites that have not been excavated or commemorated to this day. Many sites have been lost, have been hidden by new constructions or have disappeared without any hint or sign remembering their cruel past, revealing a lack of historical memory and justice in Spain's society.