Jesus Carrera, the communist from Hondarribia

Jesús Carrera Olascoaga, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain, was shot and buried in a mass grave in the cemetery of Alcalá de Henares in 1945. A cloud of silence shrouded his memory, to the extent that even his family was unaware of the role he played in important historical moments such as the civil war, the resistance in Nazified France and the clandestine reorganisation of the PCE at the beginning of Franco's regime. Publicly, Carrera's existence was not known until 2018, when his remains were exhumed and transferred to Hondarribia.