Der Abgrund des Vergessens /El abismo del olvido

DER ABGRUND DES VERGESSENS /EL ABISMO DEL OLVIDO

• Publishing Company:

  REPRODUKT

• Imprint:

• Format:

  ONE SHOT

• Creator(s):

  RODRIGO TERRASA (STORY)

  PACO ROCA (ART)

  ANDRé HöCHEMER (TRANSLATION)

• Number of Pages:

  304

• Cover price:

  Euro 34.00

• Publication Date:

  6 June 2025

• Age:

  YOUNG ADULT, ADULT

• Fiction/Non-Fiction

  NON-FICTION

• Key words:

  HISTORY,

• Summary:

  Acquisition: In September 1940, more than a year after the end of the Spanish Civil War, José Celda was shot dead by Franco’s security forces and buried in a mass grave with eleven other men. Seven decades later, José’s now eighty-year-old daughter, Pepica, set out to locate her father’s remains. She likely would not have succeeded had it not been for the gravedigger Leoncio Badía, a young Republican, who did everything in his power to bury those murdered by the Franco regime with dignity and to help their families identify them.

  The number of people who disappeared during the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship is estimated at at least 100,000 to 150,000. In “The Abyss of Oblivion,” Rodrigo Terrasa and Paco Roca shed light on the fate of the Republican desaparecidos and resist the still-unbroken pact of silence that lies over one of Spain’s darkest and most brutal eras.