ALL NAMES
A database of victims of the Civil War and Franco's Internet.
"I wanted to thank the publication of the biography of Antonio and Gonzalo Ortiz Crespo, are my family. I heard about his story into a screenplay Internet Document film I'm writing. The discovery was quite accidental, I had no idea of \u200b\u200bits history. Then I asked my mother and I confirmed the deaths in Gusen but she did not know much more. I contacted other family members and I could not make a lot of data. Thank you very much for this publication of their biographies and photos, that have impressed me but I am encouraged to have seen. Thank you very much and a big hug, Remedios Crespo. "
This message was received at the electronic address of the" All Names "on July 25, 2006, barely twenty-four hours after the biography of Antonio Estepa and Gonzalo Ortiz be put on the web www.todoslosnombres.org, which is to illustrate not only how information and communication tool that the Internet is of great interest and value to those interested in what has been called the Recovery of Historical Memory, but also the extensive monitoring and acceptance that is taking the development of this ambitious project.
The identification of victims caused by the rebels during the civil war began in 1936 and during the Franco dictatorship and to obtain information about them is an arduous task in which citizens, in most cases descendants and relatives of victims-are large difficulties. On the one hand there is the confusion of someone who does not know what body, what file or what literature to go for information and, secondly, the inability of the administration itself to meet the demands of its citizens. And not just choose to search the Internet for such information not found elsewhere. The most common use of Internet in Spain is seeking information on the network and are on victims of repression. If we introduce the terms "English Civil War" - enforcement - victims - 1936, the popular search engine Google found 48,400 results quickly. There's everything from information historical, news, and also the websites of associations, some of which include lists of victims and forums that the applicants go on missing information.
Notwithstanding the existence of these forums and websites on the Civil War, the use of Internet as a tool for finding information on the victims is quite often frustrating lack of effective results. Hence the need for this initiative, initially limited to the area of \u200b\u200bAndalusia, is aimed at creating a large database, searchable on the Internet, which will systematically using all information available on casualties Franco repression in various forms. "All the Names" borrows the title of the novel by José Saramago and alludes to the Recovery of Historic Memory passed by the nominal identification and recognition of all those who suffered the consequences of the regime installed by the coup d'état of 18 July 1936: all had a name, everyone had a life, everyone had a face. That is our utopian goal.
The bill was drafted in 2004 by Gonzalo Acosta Bono, has been promoted jointly by the General Confederation of Labour - Andalusia (CGT.A) and the Historical Memory and Justice of Andalusia (AMHyJA), which signed a cooperation agreement to implement it and presented it to the open call for projects in this field conducted by the Ministry of Justice and Public Administrations of the Government of Andalusia in March 2004. Despite being highly attractive for its general nature, affecting the entire regional territory, but was not selected because its size and implementation costs exceeded the forecasts of the call, which focused on local projects.
Regardless of the outcome of the call for the Ministry of Justice, the project coordinators, and Gonzalo Acosta Cecilio Gordillo, advised by historian Francisco Espinosa Maestre, who had joined the same as head of History, held since September 2004 interviews with representatives of various institutions in order to win support and were matured in parallel the definition of the management team of the project, formation of an Advisory Council, a General Council and received the accession of many historians and researchers of repression. This allowed possible in autumn and make it public to the media ("The Francoist repression on the Internet", El Mundo, 17/11/2004) and in May 2005 filed in the Diputación de Cádiz an informative brochure . The Management Team was already built by the project coordinators, Francisco Espinosa, Manuel López Peña (responsible for the area of \u200b\u200bcomputer science) and technical Fernando Romero (Story area) and Jose Espinosa Santiago (computer), the Advisory Board was constituted by names prestige as historians Josep Fontana, Paul Preston, Hilari Raguer Nicolas Sanchez Albornoz and philosopher Reyes Mate, the General Council was formed by historians Miguel Antonio Bernal and José Luis Gutiérrez Molina, anthropologists Ángel del Río Sánchez and José María Valcuende River, and the archivist Liañez Laureano Rodriguez, and among provided researchers were already joining, among others, Julio Arostegui, Julián Casanova, Carme Molinero, Francisco Moreno Gómez, Alberto Reig Tapia, Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart, the archivist Antonio Gonzalez Quintana, etc., for a total of more than half hundred specialists. They had also expressed its commitment Amical Mauthausen associations, War and Exile Association, Aranzadi Science Society, Centre d'Estudis on Franco i les Èpoque Democratic Bideak Memoriaren Association, the ARMH Bollullos Par del Condado, Jaén and Málaga, and Provincial de Sevilla and Cadiz.
Until then, the Junta de Andalucía had been pro-hearted. The representatives of the Ministry of Justice came to refer to "All Names" in all public statements about his performance in this area, so that was presented as a project of the Board, but without defining how it would the regional government there. After nearly a year of waiting, finally signed on October 3, 2005 a collaboration agreement involving, in addition to promoting institutions and CGT.A AMHyJA, the Ministry of Justice, Pablo de Olavide University and the Foundation The Mt. While
paperwork dilated project implementation was, however, their dissemination both motor idea as its title. Hence, at the First Meeting of Researchers of Historical Memory, held in Castellar de la Frontera in November 2004 proposed creating Cadiz province-wide database that the project proposed for the autonomous region, and hence also the publication of the book "All the names of Jaén" by ARMH of this province, and the recent opening of the web www.todoslosnombres.es on victims of repression in Asturias. The emergence of similar initiatives presents, on the other hand, the great challenge of the possible creation of a large database of state level that brings together and unites the region, with the difficulty that this would mean that the projects and research now under way do not share working methods, or the repressive types and variables listed in the respective databases data or software tools created for treatment.
"All Names" is now a reality. The web www.todoslosnombres.org opened April 14, 2006 with the database of victims of repression in the province of Huelva in the following weeks and have been incorporated, among others, the prisoner-slaves in the Canal del Bajo Guadalquivir in Andalusia and killed in death camps Nazis. The project is, as we said Andalusian level, but we understand broadly and include not only repressed in Andalusia Andalusia, but also to those who suffered repression beyond the limits of the current autonomous region, as well as those being natural and residents of other communities suffered imprisonment, exile or died in it. In the weeks following the murder victims staggered incorporated in several towns of Cadiz and Seville, the database that handles Jaén ARMH for his province and the Andalusian for battalions of workers in the Navarre Pyrenees. In just over two months the database has exceeded the threshold of 10,000 records It is estimated that by the end of 2006 could reach 30,000.
The first data base built to come from the research of historians and associations committed to the project and aims to put all the published information and listings of reprisals that circulate in the network. Researchers partners provide information resulting from their own works, edited in some cases, but new and innovative in others. And not just those who supported the project when he was still in gestation. Once activated, the web, several researchers inside and outside of Andalusia have contacted us to make their information available of www.todoslosnombres.org. Thus, among the upcoming additions to the website are, inter alia, the relations of Andalusia died in the Hospital of Prisoners of War of Gernika, in prisons and Saturraran Valdenoceda, recent contributions on deported to Mauthausen, and so on. In addition to researchers, family members of the reprisals are also an important source of information. Go to "All Names" requesting information, but provide few or many data stored in the family memory, complete the information on the website and correct errors.
The database is the core of "All Names" but not aware that the location of the person about whom information is sought can be very disappointing, the site provides alternative content for the user interested in the Recovery of Historical Memory. Currently operational sections of News and Microbiografías. The first includes news and announcements that have had little media coverage or that, having had, have been considered of great interest. The second is a biographical gallery of victims, mostly anonymous people so far, and is composed of short stories hundred near the end of July, which were written by professional historians or by the descendants and families of their own biographies in other cases. Also opening is scheduled soon three new sections: national legislation, international and regional galleries, historical and current images, and investigations, in the latter will include historiographical works of the contributors, some unpublished and other published but hard to find for having published books and magazines in stock or not widely disseminated.
The new sections will open in October at the same time it released the new web graphic design, on the eve of the broadcast and working days to be held at the Centro Cultural El Monte in Seville between 19 and 21 and who claim to be the "coming-out" of the project to Andalusian society. The presentations and round tables be involved first-order specialists and historians Mirta Núñez, Francisco Moreno, Hilari Raguer, Miguel Antonio Bernal, José Luis Gutiérrez and Julio Arostegui, Antonio González Quintana archivists and Liañez Laureano Rodríguez, the lawyer and Margalida Capella Montserrat Armengou journalist. Apart from this scientific meeting academic style, the conference also designed to encourage teamwork, collaborating researchers to assess the results achieved to date and to propose and discuss possible innovations and improvements to the implementation of this project to, form the complete census of the victims of repression, it is perhaps unrealistic but necessary and indispensable to the extent it serves a social demand that until now, different administrations have failed, or unwilling, to respond effectively. Fernando Romero Romero
Historical Memory and Justice Association - Andalucía
Cecilio Gordillo Giraldo
General Confederation of Labour - Andalucía
Francisco Espinosa Maestre
Historian
Posted in Notebooks for dialogue ", No. 13, September 2006
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