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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Tags: Brunete, Guadalajara, Jarama, Madrid, Spanija, Teruel, Yugoslavian Volunteers
Posted in Blog | Comments Off on SPANISH MEETINGS by August Cesaric
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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Tags: Spanija, Yugoslavian Volunteers
Posted in Blog | Comments Off on ON THE NORTHERN FRONT by Vojislav Milosevic
Marianne Angermann, a young German biochemist, joined a Madrid lab in late 1935 to work with her compatriot Franz Bielschowsky, a Jewish refugee who’d been there since 1933. When the war broke out the following year, both decided stay in Spain and serve the Republican war effort as medical personnel. Marianne’s letters to her...
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Posted in Features | Comments Off on Marianne Angermann and Franz Bielschowsky: Two German Antifascists in Republican Madrid
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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Tags: Belchite, Brunete Offensive, Jarama, Quinto, Spanija, Yugoslavian Volunteers
Posted in Blog | Comments Off on LEAVES FROM THE DIARY OF ONE WHO IS NO LONGER THERE by Ales Bebler
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 places...
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Tags: Brunete Offensive, Quinto, Spanija
Posted in Blog | Comments Off on AND ARAGON IS ON FIRE by Dr. Mirko Markovich
To the Editors: I’ve just read Nevine Abraham’s article about the Palestinian volunteer Ali Abd el-Khaleq in your last number (“Liberating Palestine in Spain”). I’m very happy you touched this topic and raised a bit of light into this little-know participation. Thanks. But I’m sorry to say there are some important mistakes in the...
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Posted in Letters | Comments Off on Palestinian Volunteers: An Exchange
This photograph of Lincoln brigaders Bill Aalto, Alex Kunslich and Irv Goff, with a Spanish comrade, depicts something rare, possibly unique. But unfortunately, all physical copies of it are lost—or, at least, their whereabouts are unknown.
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The day after Franco’s troops entered Barcelona, Otília Castellví, a young seamstress, woke up to a city she could barely recognize.
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Posted in Features | Comments Off on The Amazing Tale of Otília Castellví, a Seamstress from Barcelona
Fifty years after Roe v. Wade, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) is pleased to announce that the 2023 ALBA/Puffin Award for Human Rights Activism will go to Indigenous Women Rising (IWR), which is committed to honoring Native and Indigenous People’s inherent right to equitable and culturally safe health options through accessible health education,...
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What was it like to grow up as the daughter of a Lincoln vet in Cold-War America?
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Posted in Memory's Roster | Comments Off on Growing Up Scared: A Memoir