Gabriel Jackson spoke with Sebastiaan Faber in April 2010. See here for the written interview.
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Gabriel Jackson spoke with Sebastiaan Faber in April 2010. See here for the written interview.
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At the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, Kevin Doyle interviewed the young Spanish Anarchist Manuel García:
We are very involved with the movement to recover historical memory. But not only in the sense of identifying the victims and what happened in this and that situation. As anarchists we are also involved in order...
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The Film Archive(d) has posted the full 1983 TV debut of George Selden, in which the legendary journalist recounts his decades-long career, including his coverage of the Spanish Civil War:
Although George Seldes was one of the giants in the history of American journalism, particularly in the field of press...
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In one their largest projects so far, the Spanish anthropolist Francisco Etxeberria and the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory have concluded the exhumation of a mass grave at La Pedraja (province of Burgos) holding the bodies of more than 100 individuals executed by the rebel forces in the first month of the...
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After twenty-six years in Barcelona, one of the world’s most prominent historians of twentieth-century Spain has moved back to the United States. Few foreign scholars command the respect and authority that Gabriel Jackson enjoys in Spain. For the past decade, Jackson has been working on a major biography of Juan Negrín, the Republic’s Prime...
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In a letter to the Washington Post, W. Royal Stokes fondly recalls Professor Knox's classes at Yale:
Professor Knox never spoke in class of his wartime experiences, namely, manning a machine gun in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 or parachuting behind enemy lines in France and commanding an infantry...
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The historian and activist Ceferino Álvarez died on August 27, La Voz de Asturias reports--less than two years after his legendary father, Ceferino Alvarez Rey, aka "El Jefe," who passed away in January last year. Álvarez, who published widely, was a leader of the Asociacion de Descendientes del Exilio and the movement...
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The UK National Archives have made available for public viewing 170 more Security Service files, including files on the International Brigade Association. The Archives' website provides access to other SCW-related materials as well, including the transcripts of interviews with Maurice Levine, one of the few Jewish volunteers in the British batallion....
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Select images from the legendary collection of Magnum, founded after World War II by Robert Capa, Chim, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, will be available as e-postcards through Paperless Post, a company specializing in electronic stationary, PR Newswire reports:
"We are excited to be collaborating with some of the most...
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The highly respected Spanish Civil War scholar Ángel Viñas, who recently completed an authoritative trilogy on the Republic and whose edited collection of essays on foreign diplomats during the war was published this summer, shares his findings on Stalin's role in Spain on WAIS, the listserv founded by the late Ronald Hilton:
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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