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Associació Memòria de Mallorca (Associació per a la Recuperació de la Memòria Històrica de Mallorca) (‘Association for the Recovery of Mallorca’s Historical Memory’) has initiated the creation of the memorial, Mur de la Memòria (‘The Wall of Memory‘) at the municipal… Continue Reading →
Memorial stones in Europe Around the world, you’ll find the so-called ‘stolpersteine’ (German for ‘stumbling stones’). They are actually brass memorial plaques which have been placed to remind us about the horrors and victims of Holocaust. The ‘stones’ are usually… Continue Reading →
A greeting from the German antifascists 9 May 1945-2019 SPASIBO! RED ARMY & SOVIET UNION You will be forever in our hearts. Antifascists from Hamburg, Berlin and Leipzig
When we celebrate 1 May, many people merely perceive it as a tradition. They might have a vague idea of what it is about without giving much thought to it. In Copenhagen, people traditionally gather in different parts of the city… Continue Reading →
Maritime Workers, Union Organisers and Brigadistas Harry Hynes and Joe Bianca were among the American maritime workers who joined the International Brigades – 250 from the New York waterfront alone and hundreds more from other poor waterfront cities. Both were… Continue Reading →
Pierre Degeyter and the workers’ choir La Lyre des Travailleurs Pierre Chrétier Degeyter was born 8 October 1848 in Gent, Belgium. Around the age of ten, after the family had relocated to France, he started working in the textile mills… Continue Reading →
Rien Dijkstra – secretary of the Dutch International Brigade memorial trust, Stichting Spanje 1936-1939 and, in coorporation with the Danish sister organisation Foreningen Venner af De Internatio-nale Brigader, initiator of the website spanishsky.dk – died 2. August 2018. Rien has… Continue Reading →
The monument to the Danish volunteers who fell in the Spanish civil war, located in Churchill Park on the Esplanade in Copenhagen, has a chequered past. Chequered, in the sense that the will to raise the monument was ever present,… Continue Reading →
I guess that he is ten, maybe twelve years old. The boy at the post office in Madrid, packet under his arm. He has a pale and narrow face and big, big eyes. He has been standing in the exact… Continue Reading →
Paulina Abramson (married Mamsurova), 1915-2000 Paulina Abramson was born in 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Russian emigrant parents. Their father being a communist, Paulina and her younger sister Adelina grew up in a pronounced political environment. In 1930, the… Continue Reading →
