The Spanish Ministry of Culture has launched a web portal on victims of the Spanish Civil War. In compliance with the so-called Law of Historical Memory, adopted in December 2007, this portal seeks to provide the public with an easy way to access to any information available in public archives about those who...
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The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company's version of Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ryan Whinnem and performed June 11–July 11 among the ruins of the Patapsco Female Institute Historic Park in Maryland, is set during the Spanish Civil War.
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ALBA's sister organization in the UK, the International Brigade Memorial Trust, has just published its second newsletter of the year, featuring reviews of Angela Jackson's new book and the catalog of the Antifascistas exhibit; news on Garzón and newly unveiled monuments; and a report of a visit by SCW vets to the House of...
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Michael Kerrigan reviews ALBA Board member Antonio Muñoz Molina's ambitious Civil War novel, La noche de los tiempos, for the Times Literary Supplement (pdf):
Written with lyric intensity and epic scope, La noche de los tiempos engages as only a novel can with the everyday stuff...
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Guénaël Mettraux writes an incisive op-ed for the International Herald Tribune :
The reaction to Garzón’s latest investigative efforts and the Brazilian Supreme Court’s recent upholding of a law of amnesty that applies to the crimes of Brazil’s military dictatorship are powerful reminders that states can still decide what to do with...
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The History News Network reports on the "Picasso: Peace and Freedom" exhibit at the Tate in Liverpool. The show's pièce de resistance is the painting The Charnel House, on display in the UK for the first time in fifty years:
The Charnel House was based on a short...
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"There is international support for the view that a national prosecutor or investigating judge is entitled to seek to go behind a national amnesty in respect of international crimes in his or her own country," nine prominent international law scholars write in a letter published today in The Guardian:
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The trial of Baltasar Garzón has revealed that the Spanish courts have become politicized to a worrisome extent, Sinikka Tarvainen writes in the Earth Times:
For more than a decade, judges have increasingly come under the influence of politicians, many Spanish analysts say, concerned that such a situation is undermining...
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Erna Paris reflects in The Globe and Mail on President Obama's recent renunciation of the Bush national security doctrine and notes an increasing impact of the work done by the International Criminal Court, among other places in Spain:
Although the ICC is still a toddler in institutional terms,...
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The Spanish newspaper Público is publishing a series of stories of victims of Francoist repression--stories that, it says, the Spanish courts are refusing to hear. In November 2008, a month after his controversial October 2008 brief indicting the Franco regime for crimes against humanity, judge Baltasar Garzón disqualified himself from the case (se inhibió), passing...
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On Friday April 26, 2024, as part of my work with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Tribute Project I set out to visit the grave of Harry Farris in North Henrico, VA. I located the cemetery easily but my search for his grave proved a bit more complicated. I had the section he is buried...
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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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With deep sadness, I write of the passing of Helene Susman, widow of Bill, at the age 103. She did not go to Spain with the Lincolns nor held a position with the VALB or ALBA, but to me and many others she was a founder of our small organization and a kindred spirit....
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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...
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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 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 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...
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