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French public television pays homage to Eresoinka this Sunday

This article was translated by John R. Bopp How excited are we!  This is a year of commemorations.  Most of them are due to the disasters...

The Irish press and its surprising opinion about the evacuation of...

El Habana el buque que llevó a los niños vascos a Gran Bretaña
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp Not too long ago, we discussed an interesting article published in the Swiss daily Basler Zeitung, written by...

The 80th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica in the international...

Bombardeo de Gernika (Foto- Fundación Museo de la Paz de Gernika)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp As we prefer to do when, because of the importance of the topic and volume of information we’ve...

George L. Steer: a chronicle about the journalist who told the...

George Steer en el aeródromo de East London el 2 de noviembre de 1938
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Today, on the 80th anniversary of the Bombing of Guernica, we’re paying tribute to the journalist who most...

Eighty Years after Guernica: against the lies, more truth

fotograma del documental Elai-alai donde se pueden ver los resultados del Bombardeo de Gernika (1938)
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Since About Basque Country has existed, we’ve paid very special attention to the tragic events the Basques lived...

The photo that sums up the story of the Basque war...

Niños vascos refugiados en Gran Bretaña desesperados ante la caída de Bilbao en manos de los insurrectos
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We found this photo that grabbed our attention as soon as we saw it.  It’s the image of...

Elai-Alai and Eresoinka: A People’s Culture against the Barbarism of Fascism

This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’re in a time of commemorations.  As you might expect, we’re referring to the 80th anniversary of those...

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,...

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...