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“The Basque Club” of London: a 1945 Newsreel from British Pathé

Fiesta del Basque Club de Londres  1945
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...

Herminio Martínez en The Guernica Children do remember
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...

Buque de la Marina Mercante USA hundido en la IIGM
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...

Los primeros voluntarios del  batallón Arana Goiri.
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

Hiroshima, before and after the atom bomb (ibiblio.org/Public domain)
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...

Foto de Margot Duhalde de 1953. Foto cortesía del Museo Nacional Aeronáutico y del Espacio de Chile.
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)

Fotograma del documental sobre una niña vasca de la guerra en Bélgica
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...

Maria Incera. Una "niña vasca de la guerra" que narra sus vivencias desde Yorkshire
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...