Tag: Second World War
“The Basque Club” of London: a 1945 Newsreel from British Pathé
Before televisions invaded our homes, news was spread via newsreels, when cinema-goers were shown the news before the film, thereby getting a window into...
In homage to Herminio Martínez and all the War Children: a...
Our regular readers will have had the opportunity to discover many reports on our blog about the Basque Children of '37 Association, a group...
The Mariners who Served in the US Merchant Marines to Be...
Thanks to Pedro J. Oiarzabal and the Sancho de Beurko Association for the news!
The US is going to give the Congressional Gold Medal (one...
Lies and threats against the defenders of the Cause of the...
The past few days, we Basques have had to witness, stupefied, the spectacle of watching Vox, a far-right Spanish party that defends Francoism, accuse...
The Basque geologist who discovered where the remains of Hiroshima are
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
This is one of those stories that causes anguish in the soul. We know we don't need to...
Margot Duhalde, the Basque-Chilean who fought as a World War 2...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
BBC World broke the news to us. Margot Duhalde was born in 1920 into a Basque-French family in...
The Emotional Stories of the Basque War Children in Belgium (video)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
This entry is the fruit of the help of one of our readers, a friend on this blog’s...
The memoirs of Maria Incera, a Basque war child who lives...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Her name is Maria Luisa Incera. She’s from the La Arena neighborhood of Zierbena, on the Biscayne coast,...
From the US, the story of Florentino Goikoetxea, the Basque “importer/exporter”...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Vince J. Juaristi is a Basque-American born in Elko, Nevada who has a company in Alexandria, Virginia, and who...
Homage is paid in England to a woman who is part...
This article was translated by John R. Bopp
Her name is María Luisa Incera, and she was a little girl when, in 1937, she had to...