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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and places are...
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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and places are...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
ALBA’s passport project is currently in the third of four planned phases. The first two phases concentrated on volunteers whose name appears on the “Scope of Soviet Activity” list that includes passport numbers. The first phase of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filings focused on volunteers killed in Spain. In the second phase,...
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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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The Detectives were great!! If anyone has any information about Harry and Sol, please let me know. My dad asked me to do what I could to keep the memory of his brother alive and the detectives really answered a lot of questions for me. Thanks ALBA, for helping!!
Awesome story! My grandfather was also a veteran of the ALB.
Salud!
An important document adding to the historiography of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. It is well known of the large proportion of Jewish volunteers in Lincoln and other brigades, but very little known about the participation of African Americans.
This document fills a gap. People who lived the war with the International Brigades spoke of the experience of brotherhood and generosity who was unique and remained with them for the rest of their lives. Circumstances may have had much to do with it but there is little doubt that the quality of the people who selected themselves to go to Spain was a significant starting point. Douglas Roach was one of those unique human beings. Honor and glory to him, may he rest in peace.
Many thanks for making this preview available
Federico Allodi,
Toronto, Canada
Born in Montemayor (Córdoba), Spain, October 19, 1934
Once again it is very heartening to see information presented,about one of the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. My late father-in-law
Sam Gonshak fought in the 15th Brigade and was elevated to the rank of Political Commisar.
My wife (Esther Gonshak Glassberg) and I have attended every reunion of the VALB since 1968. Sam was a tireless worker at the office together with Moe Fishman etc. He was very instrumental in organizing the first of several reunions and trips back to Spain after the death of Franco. Esther and I have over the years created a collection of posters from the Civil War and some other materials relating to the period. We look forward to sharing our information with ALBA.
Bert Glassberg, 252 Blue Hill Road Hopewell Junction, N.Y. 12533
BudnEsther@optonline.net