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🗓️ 6 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | People go to Spain and they might see Barcelona, this modern beautiful city on the beach. |
0:12.5 | Or they might go visit the Alambrán, Granada, or see a DJ in Ibiza. |
0:18.0 | But Spain in the 1970s was a much darker place than what it is now. |
0:23.4 | And that's because of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. |
0:27.7 | I wrote a story for the New York Times magazine about one of the most harrowing and also one |
0:33.0 | of the most long-lasting abuses that took place in Spain during that time. |
0:37.8 | Long-lasting because the victims were so young. |
0:42.3 | In those years, women say that they were losing their babies the day that they were born. |
0:47.3 | The hospitals told them their babies were still born, but they weren't still born. |
0:51.6 | They were actually sold by nuns and doctors to families, usually Catholic families. |
0:58.6 | And in their new homes, the children usually grew up having nice, normal lives, except |
1:03.8 | for the fact that a secret was being hidden from them. |
1:07.3 | No one knows how many babies were taken from their parents, but people think that it |
1:11.2 | could have been in the tens of thousands. |
1:14.4 | Most of the stolen children never knew that this had happened, but as they became adults, |
1:18.5 | a few found out. |
1:22.8 | This story focuses on a woman named Anna Bailen Bintavo, who, after the death of her supposed |
1:28.6 | parents, learned that they actually weren't who they said they were. |
1:33.6 | I wanted to tell the story of Anna Bailen's search for her real mother. |
1:39.2 | My name is Nick Casey. |
1:40.2 | I'm a writer at the New York Times magazine. |
1:43.2 | My job is to find compelling stories anywhere in the world, but the one which I wanted to |
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