Villalibre de la Jurisdicción II, León (2016). According to a great-niece of the two brothers, Arsenio was tied to a tree and hacked to death with a machete, between 1936 and 1937. The extension of the N-536 road has made it impossible to find his body.Antiguo Cementerio del Carmen, Ponferrada, León (2016). Antonio Fernández Guerrero, 25, and José Canedo Fernández, 26, were shot in front of the cemetery wall on 21 May 1942 and buried in a common grave. The cemetery was closed, but the grave is probably still there and could hold 200 others.
Villalibre de la Jurisdicción III, León (2016). Claudio Macías lived hidden as a ‘ mole’ in the cellar of the family home. He wanted his sisters to avoid the same fate as his brother Arsenio. Before dying of a lung disease, in 1937, he dug his own grave in the cellar.
After returning to his village once the front of Asturias had fallen, in 1937, Claudio Macías lived hidden as a ‘mole’ in the cellar of the family home. He wanted his sisters to avoid the same fate as his brother Arsenio. Before dying of a lung disease, he dug his own grave in the cellar and built a wooden coffin for his body. His father committed suicide. Claudio’s body was exhumed in 2014 after the death of his sister Manuela, who had kept the family tragedy a secret all her life.
