He was evacuated from Spain to Belgium in 1939 during the Spanish Civil War, and had no memory of his former life.
In 1939, Vicente—who was about five years old and had lost his father on the war front, and had his mother hospitalized—was being sheltered in a refuge for orphaned children managed by the government of the Spanish Republic.
But one day she went to visit him and there was no trace left. There had been an announcement about the evacuation in a newspaper, but she never saw it. Unable to remember his past life in Spain, Vicente sent handwritten letters to some major cities in Spain requesting for help. In Barcelona, his aunt asked for help from the Spanish authorities shortly before the evacuation. But the connection was not an easy one to make.
But their fortunes changed when the aunt was awarded the Commemorative Medal from the Catalan Government for turning 100 years old. This personalized medal is a recognition to all residents of Catalonia who have reached 100 and it is engraved with the name of the person. Our group from the Cell Biology and Medical Genetics unit of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona was selected to carry out the identification test. From a genetic point of view, it was an easy case.
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