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The Spanish cemetery of the Camp de Judes, located in Septfonds in Occitanie, was created during the 2nd quarter of the 20th century to house the remains of Spanish Republican soldiers. This funeral place, located at the place called "Les Places", houses 81 graves of dead combatants in the Judes camp, a site marked by exile and the suffering of the refugees of the Spanish war.

Long abandoned after the Second World War, this cemetery was restored in 1978 thanks to the initiative of Cesareo Bustos Delgado, a Spanish refugee deported to Mauthausen. This rehabilitation project aimed to preserve the memory of the victims and honour their struggle, in a context where the traces of the history of the Spanish republicans in France were often ignored or neglected.

The cemetery is now protected: it was inscribed as a historic monument by order of 26 September 2011. Owned by the commune of Septfonds, it bears witness to a painful part of European history, linked to the demotion of the Spanish republicans and their internment in France during and after the Spanish civil war.

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