ALBA's Human Rights Film Series opens tonight in the Museum of the City of New York with the must-see documentary Impunity (2011; trailer), by Hollman Morris and Juan José Lozano. Impunity investigates the sudden interruption to “peace and justice” process in Colombia due to the political and economic interests of the...
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The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), one of the co-sponsors of ALBA's Human Rights Film Series this coming weekend, has just published an interview with Trisha Ziff, director of The Mexican Suitase, one of the documentaries screened there. Listen to it here.
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On Friday, the same day the film opens at movie theaters in Spain, Trisha Ziff's gripping documentary The Mexican Suitcase is being screened at ALBA's Human Rights Film Festival (Museum of the City of New York, tickets here, trailer here). See here for coverage in the Spanish press today. The Suitcase...
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ALBA joins the international community in its denunciation of the appalling vandalization of the recently inaugurated monument to the International Brigades on the campus of the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. See El País coverage here.
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We are sad to report the passing of Fanny Edelman aka Fanny Jabcovsky, Argentine political activist and feminist, one of the most charismatic among the women volunteers to join the Republic's fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War, and President of the Communist Party of Argentina. See here for a touching video;...
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As part of the events surrounding the 75th anniversary of the founding of the International Brigade, a group of Lincoln vet family members took a tour of some of the central sites of the US Medical Services in the Spanish Civil War. The tour, led by Alan Warren, visited several hospitals directed by Dr....
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Goodbye Barcelona, the International-Brigade-themed musical by Judith Johnso, Karen Rabinowitz, Mark Smith, and K.S. Lewkowicz, will be premiering later this month at the Arcola Theatre in London. See the flyer here.
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Good news for the fight against impunity in the Southern Cone: "An Argentine court sentenced 12 former military and police officials to life in prison on Wednesday for crimes against humanity committed during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship," the Associated Press reports today:
Among those sentenced to life in the landmark ruling...
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Videos of speeches given at the unveiling of the new IB memorial in Madrid this weekend: UK brigadista David Lomon; AABI president Ana Pérez; Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Complutense University: University Rector José Carrillo.
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A beautiful slideshow of this weekend's events can be found here.
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The family of Paul Andrew Mooney (1910-1961) is searching for documentation to substantiate information he provided to his family about serving in the International Brigades. Paul Mooney was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated from Hughes High School in 1929 and attended the University of Cincinnati in 1929, 1935 and 1936. In...
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Teesside, an industrial region in Northeast England that in the nineteenth century grew to be a center of shipbuilding and iron and steel production, spawned no fewer than thirty International Brigade volunteers. Of the nine who were born in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, moreover, six played leading roles in Spain: five rose to the rank of Lieutenant...
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The first thirty-six Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for Phase IV were submitted December 30, 2024. Phase IV is intended to focus on volunteers on whom we have minimal information. At some point in the future, I plan to resubmit some volunteers who were returned as not found or on whom no information...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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