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Spanish Civil War

Articles tagged with: Spanish Civil War

27 October 2019 05:38 PM

A portrait of Tomàs Verdaguer Roqué, a Spanish Civil War soldier whose remains were returned to his family 80 years after his death, in October 2017 (by Xavier Verdaguer)

The two sides of the Civil War legacy

The return of the remains of a Republican soldier found in an unmarked grave provide a stark contrast to the exhumation of dictator Franco

Society

10 October 2019 01:26 PM

Receipt of money deposited into the Bank of Spain following the Civil War (by Xavier Pi)

Local campaign to reclaim spoils of war seized by Franco regime

Some town councils in Girona area coming together to demand return of cash taken from them at end of Civil War

Society

11 September 2019 09:09 PM

A choir sings in front of the Catalan government as part of the institutional act in honor of the National Day (Andreu Puig/ACN)

Spotlight on exile and migration in National Day institutional event

Traditional commemoration organized by Catalan authorities postponed until September 11 due to heavy rain the night before

Politics

04 September 2019 03:05 PM

Funeral of Conxita Grangé with the French flag over the coffin. (Photo: Gemma Tubert)

Funeral of last Catalan Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor held in Toulouse

Conxita Grangé was part of French Resistance and was praised for her efforts to “explain the brutality”

Society

26 August 2019 04:47 PM

Navy operation to detonate Spanish Civil War bomb off the coast of Barcelona (Nazaret Romero/ACN)

Spanish Civil War bomb detonated off coast of Barcelona

Explosive, dating back to 1936, was found at city’s Sant Sebastià beach

Society

18 August 2019 10:52 AM

Maria Branyas, aged 112, is the oldest person in Catalonia (by Guifré Jordan)

Meet Catalonia’s oldest person, a 112-year-old

Maria Branyas was born in 1907 and still remembers World War I

Life & Style

19 May 2019 02:33 PM

George Orwell's son, Richard Blair, answers questions at the Benjamin Franklin School of Barcelona on May 15 (Aina Sastre/ACN)

George Orwell’s son follows father’s steps in Barcelona during Spanish Civil War

Richard Blair toured the site, commenting on Spain’s historical memory policies: “We can’t have a black hole in history – something has happened”

Culture

14 April 2019 12:09 PM

A statue dedicated to Neus Català in one of the squares of her home town, Els Guiamets (by ACN)

Neus Català was an ‘extraordinary woman,’ mourns Catalan president

The Catalan Women’s Institute grieves the death of the death of the concentration camp survivor who spent years fighting for recognition of women refugees and in the resistance

Society

13 April 2019 09:39 PM

Neus Català, Catalan survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp in 2010 (by ACNl)

Neus Català, last Catalan Ravensbrück survivor, dies aged 103

The antifascist fighter who lived through the Nazi concentration camp was given the highest awards from Barcelona and the Catalan government

Society

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