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One more year the mermaids in Gernika, with the Palestinian people and the Artisans of Peace

  • This Friday is 87 years since the fascist aircraft bombed and massacred Gernika on 26 April 1937. Like every year, institutions and social partners have organised many activities. Commissioning of the siren section, walk and factory of Astra.
Gernika Memoriaren Lekuko plataformak duela bi aste aurkeztu zuen bonbardaketa gogoratzeko egitaraua. Argazkia: Gernika Memorriaren Lekuko

26 April 2024 - 10:12
Last updated: 11:59

On the occasion of the anniversary of the Gernika bombing, the Gernika Memory Site platform has organized a comprehensive programme these weeks, as memory is "a way to look at the world", as explained in the presentation. They will take advantage of the initiative to denounce, looking back, the injustices that currently occur, without evading their political importance.

Within the program, among other activities, the play "Often Hurts the Chord" has been offered in the Lizeo Theatre by the students of the Ibarrekolanda Institute of Secondary Education. It's a creation from the poems of the writer Joseba Sarrionandia.

The students of Ibarrekolanda College have performed a play through the poems of Joseba Sarrionandia, around the bombing of Gernika. Photo: Gernika Memory Witness

But this Friday is the culminating time to recall the massacre of fascist German aviation 87 years ago with the Franco authorities. As usual, at 15:45 hours a 4-minute initiative will be carried out, mermaids will be restored on the Paseo and at the Astra factory and will be heard throughout the village. This year they have invited Palestinian citizens and Artisans of Peace.

"The memory we built from Gernika is based on solidarity," explained the members of the platform. Justice. By raising your voice, at all times, reasons and times as necessary. That is why we say once again that we have always been with the Palestinian people, and that we will be, and that we will always remember the attempt to genocide against him, as they tried against us, to bring the state of Israel to the darkest place in history."

"The memory we built from Gernika is based on solidarity. Justice. By raising your voice, at all times, reasons and times as necessary. That is why we say once again that we have always been with the Palestinian people"

In addition, within the program designed by the Gernika Memory Site platform, other events will be held that will end with a candle tour. Saturday will be a day of solidarity with Palestine.

Authorities and witnesses in the bunker

The institutions have also held and will celebrate several official events on the occasion of the anniversary of the bombing. These include the CAV Acting President, Iñigo Urkullu, and the Spanish Minister for Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres.

On Monday, CAV authorities and witnesses of the Gernika bombing took place at the Astra Refuge. Photo: Open.

The municipality of Gernika-Lumo, declared by the Government of Spain as a place of historical memory on April 13, although initially the declaration of the House of Meetings was proposed, at the request of several associations, will be part of it all the population.

Last Monday, the designation ceremony was held with the inauguration of the Astra shelter for its covering with a wooden structure and its installation as visitable.


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