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EDUCATION AND COEXISTENCE 26 11M EXHIBITION IN ALBACETE AN EXERCISE IN TRUTH, DIGNITY, AND COLLECTIVE COMMITMENT THE UCLMALBACETE CAMPUS HOSTS THE MEMORY OF 11M Installed in the "Melchor deMacanaz" Le- gal and Business Studies Building, in the Faculty of Economics and Law, the exhi- bition reached its thirteenth stop in Alba- cete as part of an itinerary that has already taken it to cities such as Madrid, Vitoria, Azuqueca de Henares, Haro, Badajoz, Al- calá de Henares, Burgos, Bilbao, Santan- der, San Sebastián, and Ciudad Real, with the aimof continuing to bring the memory of theMarch 11, 2004 attacks closer to citi- zens, especially younger people. The opening ceremony brought to- gether broad institutional and social representation. Attendees included the Second Vice President of the Go- vernment of Castilla-La Mancha, José Manuel Caballero; the rector of UCLM, José Julian Garde; the president of the Albacete Provincial Council, Santiago Cabañero; the president of the Victims of Terrorism Foundation, Juan Benito Valenciano; the regional government's delegate in Albacete, Pedro Antonio Ruiz Santos; the Deputy Minister for Institutional Relations, Javier Vicario; and the Councilor for Employment of Albacete City Council, Lucrecia Rodri- guez de Vera, among other authorities. They were joined by relatives of victims of terrorism, such as the mother and bro- thers of Guardia Civil Captain José Ma- ría Galera Córdoba, born in Albacete and murdered in Afghanistan in 2010, whose presence underscored the profoundly hu- man nature of the event. BRINGING MEMORY TO A GENERATION THAT DID NOT EXPERIENCE 11M The exhibition brings together 67 photo- graphs selected from the EFE Agency ar- chive, images documenting both the hours after the explosions onMadrid commuter trains and the immediate social and ins- titutional response to the largest terrorist massacre committed in Spain. EFE's full archive contains more than 25,000 ima- ges related to those attacks. Organized into nine thematic sections, ac- companied by explanatory texts in Spanish and English, each image is contextualized through labels and captions. The exhibition is completed by a documentary video that chronologically reviews the events of those days. The design and exhibition structure were developed by journalists Laura Ca- macho and Sagrario Ortega, specialists in information on the Interior Ministry. The choice of the university campus as the exhibition space was not accidental. Throughout the speeches, speakers em- phasized the importance of bringing the From April 8 to 30, the Albacete campus of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) became a space for memory, reflection, and democratic education with the arrival of the exhibition 11M Attacks. Memory of Pain and Solidarity, promoted by the Victims of Terrorism Foundation together with the Government of Cas- tilla-La Mancha and the regional university, with support from the EFE Agency.