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Maria Busch
|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 →
| SPANISHSKY.DK 2 JANUARY 2019 | M/S Diana was a ‘gunpowder ships’, i.e. ‘krudtbåd’, a Danish nickname for the vessels that shipped arms and other military and civilian supplies to the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War Danish… Continue Reading →
|SPANISHSKY.DK 16 JANUARY 2018 | ‘Vaart vrij’ is a monument in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in memory of the Dutch trade unionist Edo Fimmen On Spanishsky.dk by Rien Dijkstra Edo Fimmen A Rotterdam dockers’ strike in 1896 led to the establishment of… Continue Reading →
| SPANISHSKY.DK 3 SEPTEMBER 2017 | CIUDAD DE BARCELONA AND THE INTERNATIONAL BRIGADES VOLUNTEERS The Ciudad de Barcelona The steamship Ciudad de Barcelona, built in the Cantieri Naval Triestino shipyard at Montefalcone, was launched on 8 June 1929 as… Continue Reading →
| SPANISHSKY.DK 31. JULI 2017 | Kaptajn Archibald Dickson er en walisisk helt fra den Spanske Borgerkrig. Dickson og besætningen på S/S Stanbrook reddede tusindevis af spaniere fra de fremrykkende fascistiske tropper. De bliver nu hædret i både Spanien og… Continue Reading →
| SPANISHSKY.DK 23 JULY 2017 | Joop Schaap was one of the leaders of the Dutch Wollweber Group. He was murdered on 7 September 1943 by the Nazis. Two of his friends, Wim Zwart and Evert Hoedemaker, share some of their… Continue Reading →
| SPANISHSKY.DK 23 JULY 2017 | Leendert Seegers Jr. was one of the members of the Dutch Wollweber Group. He died in Majdanek concentration camp as a result of having been used as a guinea pig for Nazi tuberculosis research…. Continue Reading →
| SPANISHSKY.DK 20 JUNE 2017 | Lecture on Soviet support for the Spanish Republic, delivered as part of the 5th Anti-fascist Harbour Day ‘Wolf Hoffmann’ in Hamburg 29 May 2015 By Friends of the XI International Brigade/Revision and translation editing… Continue Reading →
