Ara Balears in English - victims of Francoism

A whole life searching for Daria and Mercè, murdered in Manacor in 1936

Mercè Pinya — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:41:41 +0000

Carles Buxadé was two years old when his aunts, Daria and Mercè Buxadé, embarked at 22 and 18 years of age at the port of Barcelona with Captain Alberto Bayo's expedition. He keeps a vague memory of it, but enough to have dedicated decades of his life to searching for the truth about the cruel fate of those two women whom he never saw again. “Obviously, he was very small, but he remembers seeing them get onto an open truck with many other women, approximately ten of them,” relates his daughter, Ann.

Democratic memory: this is what laws are for

Editorial ARA Balears — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:16:42 +0000

The event that took place last September 5th in Santa Coloma de Farners, in homage and restitution of the memory of the two Catalan nurses, Daria and Mercè Buxadé, murdered by the fascists on September 5th, 1936, in Manacor and buried in the Son Coletes cemetery, has been possible due to a confluence of facts and forces that must be valued as a whole. There is, without a doubt, the perseverance of their nephew, Carles Buxadé, who has dedicated his life to recovering their history. There is the work of researchers Antoni Tugores and Jaume Miró, who have contributed to reconstructing it. There is the La Bulla association of Santa Coloma de Farners, which has returned the memory of its neighbors. And there is the task of Memòria de Mallorca, of people and entities that make it possible for the victims of Francoism to cease being invisible.

Pollença will bring the victims of Francoism back to the streets of the town

Bruno Rodríguez — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:36:06 +0000

Pollença will once again make a part of its most painful memory visible on the streets. The municipality plans to place 34 new cobblestones from the Stolpersteine project in memory of Pollença victims murdered or disappeared during the 1936 coup d'état and the Civil War. The initiative is part of the democratic memory recovery work that the town has kept open for years and which has a special significance in a municipality with a unique history within Francoist repression in Mallorca.