SPAIN REMEMBERS THE ASSASSINATION OF 13 ROSES

Highlights:

• Spain remembered the assassination if 13 women known as ‘13 roses’
• In 1939, 13 young women were killed by Francoist Squad

On August 5, 1939 just four months after the Spanish Civil War came to an end and the bullets of a Francoist firing squad killing more than 50 prisoners could be heard in what is now the Almudena Cemetery of Madrid and among the executed....