Sebastiaan Faber, Neal Rosenstein, Emilio Silva, and Marina Garde
Here is a video summary and a photo gallery of our Annual Celebration and Award Ceremony in New York City, May 9, 2015, at the Japan Society.
Photos by Len Tsou, Tony Graves, and Nancy Salame.
Fraser Ottanelli and Arturo Conde
Julia Silva
Joy Portugal and Randy Petsche
Ready for the reception, in Republican colors
Carnations with names of Spanish disappeared.
Filmmakers Pamela Yates and Paco de Onís with ALBA’s graphic designer Chris Yong
Floral arrangement
Sebastiaan Faber, Neal Rosenstein, Emilio Silva, and Marina Garde
Sebastiaan Faber & Emilio Silva
Perry Rosenstein
An ALBA member
Diane Drentlaw
Liana Katz
Dan Kaufman with Barbez and Velina Brown
The Internationale
Velina Brown and Pedro Pastor Guerra
Bookstore with volunteer Patricia Cazorla
Eunice Lipton with friend Ken
Ellyn Polshek and Helen Searing with friends
Susman family
Jonah Rubin
The ARMH delegation
Alyce Barr, volunteer, and Velina Brown
Jorge Moreno with volunteer Igor Moreno
Kim & Sebastiaan Faber with Judith Ross
Emma Daly, Emilio Silva, Stephanie Golob, and Marina Garde
Pedro Pastor Guerra and María Villar
Marina Garde and Pedro Pastor Guerra
Pablo and Simone
Evelyn Scaramella and Javier Rodríguez
Ángela and José Giral
Sebastiaan Faber
Emilio Silva
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My grandfather (Nana), Suresh, moved to the United States in 1959 as a young man on a student visa pursuing his master’s degree. His parents, my great grandparents, sought value in being ‘foreign educated’ and bringing his education home – to Mumbai, India to run their family business. 2 years after my Nana moved... Read more »
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September 18, 2024
Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80. Born in New York City in 1943 to a secular Jewish family, Peter grew up in the Bronx and Queens, where his father worked as a composer,... Read more »
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August 2, 2024
LA RÉPUBLIQUE -QUOTIDINEN DE COMBAT RADICAL ET SOCIALISTE, February 5, 1938 Foreign Volunteer Arrested On March 27 last, 29 North Americans were arrested on board the boat Sans-Pareil while they were attempting to reach the Spanish Coast. They were sentenced to a prison term for violating the decree of February 18, 1937 on the... Read more »
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July 21, 2024
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 »
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July 13, 2024
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 »
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June 1, 2024
Peter Verburgh’s translation from the French Newpaper Le Journal about a group of 29 Americans arrested in France. “29 American Volunteers Arrested in Muret” Le Journal, 5 April 1937 Toulouse, 4 April- The Control services of the Non-Intervention Committee do not remain inactive, especially with the help of the French Police and Gendarmerie. Thus... Read more »
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May 28, 2024
ALBA Board Member Steve Birnbaum made the trek on Memorial Day to the Home of Eternity Cemetary in Oakland, California to pay tribute to ALB veteran Hans Joachim. Joachim was born in Berlin, Germany in 1906 and moved to the US in 1924. He served in Spain with the George Washington Battalion and later... Read more »
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May 24, 2024
Please find attached photos of my visits to the graves of Lester Rowlson and Tersil Obriot last weekend. I left a brigade flag and a fresh white rose at each. ,,, I was also proud to include aspects of my Clapton CFC scarf; you might have heard of this small football club in London that... Read more »
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May 20, 2024
Peter Verbergh translated this article from CeSoir describing the arrest of the Dallet-Nelson Group. “The Interrogation of the Passengers of the Sans-Pareil”, CeSoir, March 29, 1937 (From our Special Correspondent) Perpignan March 28 (By Telephone) Yesterday morning around 10am, The Coast Guard Vessel Cebère docked in the port of Port-Vendres alongside the torpedo boat... Read more »
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May 19, 2024
Only five veterans of the Spanish Civil War are known to be buried in Virginia outside of Arlington National Cemetery: two in Richmond, two in Norfolk, and one in Big Stone Gap. ALB Tribute visited the graves of Harry Edward Farris and Thomas Moore in Richmond as well as Manuel Lizarrago and Crawford Morgan... Read more »