The refusal to officially recognize Día da Galiza Mártir (Galician Martyrs’ Day) leads to institutional neglect regarding, for instance, the wide array of atrocities inflicted upon the Galician population by the 1936 coup d’état and the subsequent dictatorship. Even today, we have yet to uncover the tragedy of all those buried not only in unmarked mass graves, but across a diverse network of sites designed for a living death. We must rescue, before it fades, the oral historical memory that preserved some of these horrors for decades.