According to UN figures, Spain is the second country in the world, behind Cambodia, with the highest number of missing persons.
It is estimated that there are about 114,000 people buried in ditches, mass graves or next to the cemetery wall, where they were shot. After the end of the Spanish Civil War, the period of dictatorship from 1939 to 1975 under the government of the dictator Francisco Franco was a period of repression, where in summary trials and without the possibility of defense, the enemies of the dictatorship were imprisoned and shot.
After spending 80 years missing and buried in graves, their relatives have begun to search for them.
In Paterna, Valencia, about 2,300 people were shot from 1939 to 1951 and buried in mass graves. Their relatives suffered harassment and property theft by the same people who accused them.
After years of silence, the end of the oblivion about these people is gradually being lifted and their memory is beginning to recover.