Institutions have a duty to help society pursue visionary ideals left unrealised in the past.
A right to remembrance, reparation, and justice that helps consolidate democratic values today and that serves to strengthen basic human rights among future generations, who will soon be in charge of defining public debate.
Through work in education, the Diputación de Valencia aims to encourage the study and efforts of the educational community and its professionals in the field of Democratic Memory. It seeks to support and foster initiatives that enhance and further students’ knowledge in these areas while also sharing experiences that can be adapted and applied in other schools.
Over the years it has therefore become the core of the Delegation for Democratic Memory, meeting the need of providing citizens with suitable, quality information.
The aim is to improve tolerance and empathy among students by way of knowledge and proximity.
An initiative that grows stronger each year with the collaboration of associations for the recovery of memory, primarily made up of victims’ families.
Ontinyent wished to create a space worthy of honouring the memory of the thirteen people executed by the Francoist dictatorship on 15 December 1939, when the war was over.
Today it represents a meeting place for the victims’ families, who obtained approval from the authorities to exhume the remains from niches 266 and 267 in the cemetery. Subsequently, they were identified and given a proper burial.
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