Within the events scheduled in the project Fem Memòria. Dénia, Guerra i Repressió, el Arxiu Històric Municipal organizó una charla dirigida a los estudiantes de 4º de ESO y Bachillerato de los tres institutos de Dénia. La conferencia «Arqueologia i memòria. Excavacions i exhumacions de fosses de la Guerra Civil i del franquisme al País Valencià» fue impartida por el arqueólogo director de la Asociación Científica ArqueoAntro y del Grup per a la Recuperació de la Memòria Històrica de València, Miguel Mezquida.
More than 300 students from the centers and also faculty of History and Philosophy attended the activity held at the Social Center.
The conference was introduced by the archivist Rosa Seser, who recalled that eighty years of a civil war are now being fulfilled «de la que aún sentimos hablar y de la que aún no se han cerrado las heridas, siendo el trabajo de Miguel Mezquida buena prueba».
Regarding Miguel Mezquida, he pointed out that he has participated in the elaboration of the Grave Map of the provinces of Valencia, Castellón and Alicante and has directed the excavation of some 40 pits between Aragón and Valencia, among others the 128 pit in Paterna (Valencia), the most numerous in the Valencian Community, with more than 100 victims. In addition, he participates in the team in charge of the recovery of the dead soldiers in the Levante Front during the Civil War and is in charge of this subject in the digital magazine of archeology La Linde.
This activity with students will be complemented with the visit to the exhibition Dénia, war temps and repressió installed in the Center d'Art l'Estació until the 2 in December.
