"This Is My Last Hope, After I Can Die": Spain Exhumes the Mass Graves of the Civil War to Appease Memories

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In Spain, families hope to identify the bodies of their loved ones who disappeared during the Civil War, a complex but essential process to turn the page "This is my last hope, after

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Ejea de los Caballeros, España. "It is my only illusion, then I can die," says María Jesús Ezquerra, in tears, who, at 88 years old, and half a century after Franco's death, dreams of finally recovering his father's body, murdered and thrown into a grave at the beginning of the Civil War, to reunite him with his mother. "I have always been a woman whom my father loved very much, without knowing him, that I did not know him." She adds sobbing in …