This Wednesday afternoon, at the municipal cemetery of Amposta, the handover ceremony of the mortal remains of Ernesto Morales Casado to his family took place. The handover was carried out by Gogora, the Institute for Memory, Coexistence, and Human Rights of the Basque Country.
Ernesto Morales Casado, born and a resident of Amposta, was imprisoned after the Civil War and sentenced to 12 years and one day for aiding rebellion. He passed through various state prisons between 1939 and 1941, eventually reaching the Orduña prison, where he died on April 23, 1941.
“"We are recovering a part of our history. Today we are doing justice."
The mayor of Amposta, Adam Tomàs, emphasized that this return represents much more than a simple restitution. "It is an act of memory, dignity, and justice. A burial with honors to recover a piece of collective history," he stated.
Between 1937 and 1941, the Jesuit Fathers' college in Orduña served as a concentration camp for prisoners of war. Subsequently, from October 1939 to 1941, it was a central prison where at least 225 people died, 24 of them in the concentration camp. Some captives were forced to carry out construction labor in the area.
