The remains of militia Manuel Hernáez Ruidiaz have been identified at the Amorebieta cemetery
Born in Matute, La Rioja, he was a neighbour of Bilbao and fought in the Ensanche battalion of the Republican Left during the Civil War. His identification has been obtained thanks to a sample provided by his 91-year-old daughter.
Amorebieta cemetery, in a stock image.
Theremains of the Republican militia Manuel Hernáez Ruidiaz were exhumed in July 2025 from the mass grave at the Amorebieta cemetery inBizkaia, and months later they managedto identify him thanks to a DNA sample provided by his 91-year-old daughter.
Born in the Riojana town of Matute, he was a neighbour of Bilbao and fought in the Zalbide battalion of the Republican Left during the Civil War.
As reported by the Institute for Memory, Coexistence and Human Rights, the family learned that Manuel had been killed in a fight in the Muxika area and suspected that he might be in the Amorebieta grave. In December 2023, when the exhumations were announced in that cemetery , relatives contacted Gogora to initiate the identification process.
The militia, who had only one daughter and whose DNA sample was handed over to the DNA bankof the Basque Government, have confirmed that Manuel Hernáez Ruidiaz is one of those buried in Amorebieta.
In July 2025, the exhumation work in that cemetery was completed and the remains of 157 people were recovered. So far, seven have been identified.
Gogora believes that between December 1936 and May 1937, the combatants killed on various fronts of the war in Bizkaia or the militiamen killed at the Amorebieta Military Hospital were buried in the mass grave in Amorebieta.
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