Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory
- Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory
Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica or ARMH in Spanish) is a Spanish organization that collects the oral and written testimonies about the victims of the regime of Francisco Franco and excavates and identifies their bodies that were often dumped in mass graves.
Emilio Silva and Santiago Macias founded the ARMH in December 2000. It is a group of about 50 Spanish archaeologists, anthropologists and forensics scientists. The group tries to identify the places of execution through records and interviewing the locals. Sometimes they also receive anonymous information about them.
Volunteer group members gather in a decided place to excavate the found mass grave. They try to exhume the bodies and then identify the remains of the victims with DNA tests and other forensic methods. As of September 2006, ARMH has conducted 40 excavations and found remains of 520 victims. [Mike Elkin - " [http://www.archaeology.org/0609/abstracts/franco.html Opening Franco's Graves] " ("Archaeology," September/October 2006)]
One of these mass graves outside of Burgos was the subject of a photo-documentary entitled "Dark is the Room Where We Sleep" at the International Center Of Photography in New York, New York. [ [http://www.icp.org/site/c.dnJGKJNsFqG/b.2876525/k.9FC1/Francesc_Torres.htm Francesc Torres - International Center Of Photography ] ]
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