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The Unveiling of the Monument ‘Blockade-Runners to Spain’

| SPANISHSKY.DK 15 MARCH 2019 | Photo reportage of the unveiling of the monument ‘Blockade-Runners to Spain’ in Glasgow, 2 March 2019   By Allan Christiansen From hotel Alexander Thomson to the party’s offices at Waterloo Street, then to the monument… Continue Reading →

Wolfgang (‘Wolf’) Hoffmann

| SPANISHSKY.DK 10 MARCH 2019 | Wolfgang Hoffmann – an anti-fascist sailor from Vienna (Born 25. May 1912 in Vienna, died in March 11. 1942 in Camp of Gross Rosen)   By Allan Christiansen Towards new horizons Wolfgang Hoffmann was… Continue Reading →

Maria Zaitzeva – I Will Never Forget My Second Homeland!

|SPANISHSKY.DK 2 MARCH 2019 | In 1986, Kerstin Gustafson was in Spain with a group of Swedish volunteers for Spain for the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. Here she met Maria Zaitzeva, who had been… Continue Reading →

Dolores Ibarurri’s (‘La Pasionaria’) Farewell Address to the International Brigades

| SPANISHSKY.DK 23 FEBRUARY 2019 | Dolores Ibárruri (born: Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez) ‘La Pasionaria’ was a co-founder of the Spanish Communist Party (PCE) and a member of its Central Committee. She was born 9. December 1895 and died 12. November… Continue Reading →

Blockade Runners to Spain

|SPANISHSKY.DK 16 FEBRUARY 2019 | At last, a memorial in Glasgow to seafarers who defied Franco’s blockade of the Spanish Republican ports By the International Brigade Memorial Trust A memorial for the British seafarers who defied fascist bombs and Franco’s… Continue Reading →

Behind the Front Line – Five Danish Women in the Spanish Civil War

|SPANISHSKY.DK 8 FEBRUARY 2019 | Five Danish women (perhaps more) each participated in their own way in the Spanish Civil War. Temperaments and efforts differed, but they each shared the will to provide the Republic with whatever assistance they could… Continue Reading →

Bill Bailey – an American Brigadist

|SPANISHSKY.DK 2 FEBRUARY 2019 | Bill Bailey was a longshoreman and sailor, a trade unionist and a member of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. He is, however, best known by Americans, perhaps even achieving celebrity status, for tearing down the Nazi… Continue Reading →

Adolphe Low – the Last German Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War

|SPANISHSKY.DK 28 JANUARY 2019 | Fritz Teppich, who died in February 2012, was considered the last of the German volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, but this is not entirely true; there was another German volunteer, not so well-known in… Continue Reading →

Sailor Willi Schütt and Docker Walter Schuetrum

|SPANISHSKY.DK 21 JANUARY 2019 | A double story about sailor Willi Schütt from Hamburg-Altona and docker Walter Schuetrum from San Francisco Willi (Wilhelm) Schütt, a sailor from Hamburg-Altona, who fought on three continents Sailor life and emerging class consciousness Willi… Continue Reading →

Adolf Lemke – Hamburger Blacksmith and Seaman

|SPANISHSKY.DK 6 JANUARY 2019 |   Blacksmith and seaman Adolf Lemke was born in Hamburg 21 January 1904. Here he apprenticed as a blacksmith. From 1922 to 1923, he worked at the Blohm & Voss shipyard, but was dismissed because… Continue Reading →

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