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Jen Silverman’s ‘Spain’ pits art against propaganda – with a musical boost • Oregon ArtsWatch
Ben Tissell, who plays Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens, and Cycerli Ash, as Helen, rehearsing for Profile Theatre’s production…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #45thparalleluniverse #danielkluger #ErnestHemingway #FranciscoFranco #jensilverman #johndospassos #joshhecht #kgb #lisalipton #metropolitanyouthsymphony #profiletheatre #spainplay #SpanishCivilWar #theater
https://www.europesays.com/spain/103457/
Oct 15, 1902: Amparo Poch y Gascón was born on this date in Zaragosa, Spain. She (along with Lucía Sánchez Saornil & Mercedes Comaposada) founded the anarcho-feminist organization Mujeres Libres (Free Women). The group ultimately became a national federation of 30,000 members at its height in the summer of 1938 & played an important part in the Spanish Civil War. Gascón died in exile in Toulouse, France on April 15, 1968.
🇪🇸 Fechamos a semana com a Conferência José Medeiros Ferreira, cujo orador será Javier Moreno Luzón, da Universidad Complutense de Madrid, assinalando os 90 anos do início da Guerra Civil de Espanha.
📅 9 de Outubro, 17h30, na FCSH.
ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/guerra-civil-jmf/
#Histodons #SpanishHistory #SpanishCivilWar #GuerraCivilDeEspanha #GuerraCivil #Espanha #España #MemoriaHistorica #PhDLife
Just two countries supported the Republic during the #SpanishCivilWar: the Soviet Union and Mexico. Unlike Soviet help, Mexico’s support came without strings attached.
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The Canadian folk band, Hudson Valley Sally, recorded a song entitled "The Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade” which can be heard at this link. (4/4)
Ragnar Pylkki also fought at Teruel, Seguro de los Banos, & Ebro. He was wounded in action April 2, 1938, in Gandesa during the Retreats with shrapnel in his left arm & left ankle. He returned to the US on December 15, 1938 aboard the Paris. During WW2 he served in the US Navy. He died in Washington state April 10, 2004. (2/4)
Oct 1, 1916: On this date, Ragnar Pylkki was born in Minneapolis, MN. He served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. A Finnish American, he was fluent in English and Finnish. He arrived in Spain on September 16, 1937. He trained as a machine gunner. He served with the Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion during the Retreats. (1/4)
A 10ª edição da Conferência José Medeiros Ferreira, que decorrerá a 9 de Outubro na FCSH, tem organização do IHC.
Este ano, assinalamos os 90 anos do início da Guerra Civil de Espanha, tendo convidado como orador Javier Moreno Luzón, da Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
ENTRADA LIVRE
ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/guerra-civil-jmf/
#Histodons #AcademicLife #SpanishHistory #SpanishCivilWar #GuerraCivilDeEspanha #GuerraCivil #Espanha #España #MemoriaHistorica
(via Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives):
Thomas Page was born on September 29, 1910, in New York City. After high school, he worked as a bootlegger and model, until becoming an organizer with the Unemployed Councils and joined the Communist Party USA. He arrived in Spain on April 8, 1937. He served with the Abraham Lincoln Brigade until he was wounded in action.
Thomas returned to the US on December 20, 1938. He served in the US Army during WWII. After the war, he took up photography and camera repair while working for the Bell Telephone Company. He was interviewed and featured in the documentary, The Good Fight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_G_JkaTlBU&t=26s)
#thomaspage, #originalantifa, #spanishcivilwar, #abrahamlincolnbrigade, #nopasaran
Fishman, hero of the antifascist fight in Spain and the struggle against the Red Scare in the US, died of pancreatic cancer at age 92 on August 6, 2007. (5/5)
#antifa #SpanishCivilWar #ALBA #Spain
https://alba-valb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Moe-Fishman-Bio.pdf
Fishman was wounded July 5, 1937 during the Battle of Brunete when he was shot by a sniper. The bullet struck him in the thigh, shattering his femur. He survived but required a year of rehabilitation in Spain followed by another two years in the US after evacuation. He had a limp for the remainder of his life. (2/5)
Sep 28, 1915: On this date, Mosess Fishman was born in Astoria, NY. He volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. Fishman sailed to Spain on the Lafayette, arriving April 29, 1937. He served as a soldier in the George Washington Battalion despite having no prior military training. (1/5)
The Spanish Civil War (2/2)
The Long Road to Reconciliation
52 min - Available until 10/12/2026
Spring 1939. After 1,000 days of fighting and more than 400,000 deaths, the war ended with Madrid taken by the Francoists and the Republic defeated. The post-war period was characterised by repression of the losing side and deep divisions often split families right down the middle.
arte.tv/en/videos/118255-002-A…
#ArteTV #ArteReportage #History #Spain #Espana #SpanishCivilWar #War #Society #Politics #20thCentury #Documentary
The Spanish Civil War (1/2)
The Long Road to Reconciliation
53 min - Available until 10/12/2026
In two parts this documentary tells the painful story of the Spanish Civil War with descendants of Republicans and Francoists. July 1936. A military coup triggers a bloody civil war in Spain. After three years of fighting and 400,000 deaths, the war finally ends in the spring of 1939 with General Franco’s forces victorious. Heavy repression follows with the new #dictatorship interning thousands of people in concentration camps.
arte.tv/en/videos/118255-001-A…
#ArteTV #ArteReportage #History #Spain #Espana #SpanishCivilWar #War #Society #Politics #20thCentury #Documentary
📖 Quando ainda estava no IHC, Xurxo Ayán desenvolveu o projecto #HELP, com financiamento do IN2PAST.
Em conjunto com Dulce Simões, publicou um artigo que deu a conhecer o "caso particular e pouco conhecido do êxodo provocado pelo avanço das tropas sublevadas no início do Outono de 1936: os campos de refugiados espanhóis em #Barrancos".
🔓 Podem ler esta história em #AcessoAberto: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/ebre38/article/view/52356
#Histodons #SpanishCivilWar #Refugees #ContemporaryArchaeology #GuerraCivilDeEspanha
📰 Conta-nos o Almadense que Luís Farinha vai apresentar a conferência "A Intelectualidade e a luta antifascista na Guerra Civil de Espanha", no âmbito do ciclo "Encontros com Lorca", que assinala os 90 anos da morte de Federico García Lorca.
👉 https://almadense.sapo.pt/cultura/almada-recorda-federico-garcia-lorca-90-anos-apos-a-sua-morte/
#Histodons #Lorca #GuerraCivilDeEspanha #Poetry #AntiFascism #SpanishCivilWar
Sep 17, 1913: Vince Lossowski was born on this date in Rochester, NY. A Spanish Civil War veteran who was subsequently recruited into the Office of Strategic Services, he conducted OSS missions behind enemy lines in North Africa & Italy. His work included training guerrilla fighters, coordinating sabotage, & organizing resistance units. He died Feb 1984.
Sep 7: Edwin Rolfe was born on this date in 1909 in Philadelphia to Russian immigrants. He was poet laureate of the anti-fascist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. He fought to defend the republic of Spain from Franco's fascists during the 1936-39 civil war, served in WW2, and, in the 1950s, wrote searing poetry attacking the witch-hunts of the McCarthy era. He died in 1954.
Sep 3, 1908: On this date, Franklin E Bissell, Jr was born in Minneapolis, MN. He was a physician who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. He survived the war, died in 1966, & was buried in Grand View Memorial Park, Glendale, CA.
Davidow is featured in this documentary on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. She remained an activist throughout her life: She was an aid worker in Cuba following the revolution, was active in the American Civil Rights movement, and was one of the only non-Native Americans allowed onto Alcatrez during the Indigenous occupation of the island. In the 80s she became a documentary filmmaker. She died June 28, 1999, in San Francisco. (2/2)
Sep 1, 1911: On this date, Ruth Davidow was born in Volkovisk, Russia. She was one of nearly 80 women foreign volunteers who fought fascism in the Spanish Civil War. She grew up in NYC after immigrating from Tsarist Russia in 1917. She worked in a frontline hospital during the Ebro campaign. (1/2)
On May 23, 1938, Irving Goff took part in the successful amphibious operation at Carchuna on the southern coast of Spain, which resulted in the rescue of 300 Republican POWs. This amphibious raid constitutes the only operation of its kind ever undertaken by the Spanish army. He returned to the US February 4, 1938 aboard the President Harding. (2/7)
Aug 29, 1911: Irving Goff was born on this date in NYC. He served in the Lincoln Battalion in the Spanish Civil War, arriving in Spain March 7, 1938. He was initially a driver, but in December 1937 he volunteered for guerrilla operations. He operated behind enemy lines during the Battle of Teruel at the end of 1937. (1/7)
Spanish Civil War: ‘How I found my Republican great-grandfather, forgotten in mass graves’.
Like thousands of other Spanish Republicans, José Molina Lopez was cast into an anonymous mass grave and had his memory erased by the narrative imposed by the dictator Franco.
Journalist Garance Muñoz retraced her great-grandfather’s story, a reparative journey enabled by laws passed since 2007.
#SpanishCivilWar #Spain #Franco #Dictatorship #History #Longread
@emilyenco people who believe in a 'vanguard party' believe in an elite; and in every #MarxistLeninist state that has ever existed, that elite has arrogated to itself huge privilege. This isn't to say that #MarxismLeninism is 'the same as' or 'just as bad as' #Fascism, it clearly isn't. But the reason that #Stalin felt it more important to crush the #AnarchoSyndicalists in the #SpanishCivilWar than to defeat the #Fascists is that they were more of a threat to his so-called #Communism.
spain’s belchite was destroyed in the 1937 civil war, but archaeologists are still finding bullets, trenches and personal belongings beneath its ruins | World News
On the edge of Zaragoza province, the remains of Belchite sit among dry grass and scrub, their broken…
#Spain #ES #Europe #Europa #EU #1937CivilWar #archaeologicaldiscoveries #BattleofBelchite #belchite #Belchiteruins #FranciscoFranco #Spain’sBelchite #SpanishCivilWar
https://www.europesays.com/spain/68685/
Aug 8, 1912: On this date Lawrence Cane was born in NYC. He fought in the Spanish Civil War, arriving in Spain aboard the Aquitania on July 25, 1937. He served with the Mackenzie-Papineau BN. Returned to the US on Dec 20, 1938. He enlisted in the US Army Aug, 1942. He landed at Utah Beach with the assault wave of Combat Engineers, D-Day, June 6, 1944. Awarded the Silver Star & Croix de Guerre. He died Nov 8, 1976 in Great Neck, NY.
In late 1937, Aalto worked again behind enemy lines with Spanish guerrillas in the Battle of Teruel. And on May 23, 1938, Aalto led the successful amphibious operation at Carchuna, Motril on the southern coast of Spain, which resulted in the rescue of 300 Republican prisoners held in the Fort of Carchuna. The raid was the only operation of its kind ever undertaken by the Spanish army. (3/5)
Aalto volunteered for dangerous guerrilla operations, working behind enemy lines for weeks at a time. He was trained in the use of pressure-sensitive explosives to destroy railroad tracks, bridges & power lines. One operation (the destruction of the main supply bridge spanning the Albarracín River) may have been the inspiration for Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls. (2/5)
