Collective Memory on the Bombing of Gernika. María Jesús Cava Mesa in collaboration with María Silvestre y Javier Arranz.

The recovery of the collective memory has been a tenacious effort, the achievement not only of the reconstruction of the facts, but also the estimation of the subjective variables of those who were witnesses, remember and transmit their emotions. What is shown in this effort is the story without adjectives, full of questions, but also the desire to gather some pieces of a historical scenario in which “the everyday” stands out, turned into history, so that this is “history of everyone”.

INDEX

A welcome from the major of Gernika Lumo
Prologue

Acknowledgement
Introduction

Chapters

I. Gernikas’s history
II. Gernika before the Bombing. The sociopolitical situation from the perspective of its survivors.
III.  Was or wasn´t it a market day?
IV. The air strike
V. The bombing. The defenselessness of the civil population.
VI. The deceased and wounded. An endless controversy.
VII. A not purifying fire.
VIII. The destruction of a city.
IX. What happened after the bombing?
X. The impact of the case “Gernika” on the public opinion.
XI. The exile of a village.
XII. The occupation of Gernika by the national army.
XIII. Causes of the Bombing.
XIV. The transmission of facts.

Attachment

I. The interview’s questionnaire
II. Documentary source, newspaper archive, and bibliography
III. Grafic design

Cava Mesa, María Jesús con la colaboración de Silvestre, María y Arranz, Javier, 1994. Red Gernika 1, Bakeaz & Gernika Gogoratuz.
This investigation has been sponsored by Gernika Gogoratuz, the Ayuntamiento de Gernika and the Diputación Foral de Bizkaia. Departamento de Cultura.
María Jesús Cava Mesa, 1996
ISBN: 84-88949-13-8
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