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The extensive recollection of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) that has been taking place throughout Spanish public space since the 1990s is partly attributable to the mobilization triggered by a cluster of associations commonly known as “movements for the recovery of historical memory” and that claim the duty of sustaining the memory of the defeated. A bottom-up study of the actions, representations, and memories of individuals involved in this movements offers an opportunity to look closely at the mechanisms and effects of the painful transmission of the past and throws light on relations between official and private memories. This paper sets out to analyze the varied and diachronic re-socializations of these activists, particularly those who were not exposed to historical memory prior to adulthood. Consequently, the concept of memory rupture, understood as the redefinition of past representations, highlights deep changes in their relation with politics.