Gurs internment camp
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Gurs internment camp was an internment camp and prisoner of war camp constructed in 1939 in Gurs, a site in southwestern France, not far from Pau. The camp was originally set up by the French governme
Gurs c. 1939
Present-day view of the former main street
Internees in Gurs internment camp, some of them Jews, January 1941
The Camp Gurs memorial, opened in 2007
Spanish Republican exiles
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The phrase Spanish Republican exiles refers to all the citizens of the Second Spanish Republic who, during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939 and the immediate post-war period, were forced to lea
Exhibition Literaturas del Exilio, designed by architectural firm Mizien Arquitectura at the Palacio de La Moneda Cultural Center, Santiago, Chile (June–July 2007). When the civil war ended, thousands of Spaniards—who were being persecuted by the Francoist dictatorship—arrived in Chile. Many of them did so on board the SS Winnipeg, which landed in Valparaíso in 1939.
Children waiting to be evacuated from Spain, with their fists raised, a symbol used by the left.
Republican militiawomen in the Siege of the Alcázar in Toledo during the Civil War.
Liberation by the United States of the Mauthausen concentration camp under a banner written in Spanish that reads: Los españoles antifascistas saludan a las fuerzas liberadoras. Almost 9,000 Republican Spaniards ended up in Nazi concentration camps.