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During World War II, ... Throughout World War II, Spanish diplomats of the Franco government extended their protection to ... About 25,000 to 35,000 refugees, mainly ...
Children waiting to be evacuated from Spain, with their fists raised, a symbol used by the left.. The first displacements of refugees and exiles took place during the first months of the war—especially in the period from August to December 1936—marked by episodes of systematic violence against the civilian population, both because of ideologically motivated repression by the rebel forces ...
The Argelers concentration camp was an internment camp established in early February 1939 [1] on the territory of the French commune of Argelès-sur-Mer for Spanish Republican refugees. Called La Retirada (the withdrawal) many of the refugees were members of the Spanish Republican Army (Ejército Popular Republicano) in the Northeast of Spain ...
Refugees at the Argelers concentration camp, 1939 Commemorative stele for survivors of the retirada at Camp de Rivesaltes. The most infamous internment camps before World War II were used to intern the Spanish Republican refugees and military personnel during the Spanish Civil War. [3]
Six thousand Spanish men joined the Foreign Legion. About 30,000 Spanish refugees in France with the resources to pay for their passage emigrated to third countries, especially Mexico. [19] The presence of the refugees in France became more acceptable to the French public with the beginning of World War II in September 1939. The remaining ...
The children were under the overall care of the Basque Children's Committee (BCC), part of the National Joint Committee for Spanish Relief (NJCSR) a cross-party organization that co-ordinated aid to Spain. The plan was to move the refugees out of the camp and disperse them into 'colonies' throughout Britain.
The Spanish Embassy in Budapest, Hungary where Ángel Sanz Briz was posted during the war. Eduardo Propper de Callejón, a Spanish diplomat, issued a number of visas and transit visas to French refugees at Bordeaux over three days in June 1940.
The refugee population was augmented by La Retirada in 1939 in which more than 400,000 Spanish Republican refugees fled to France after their defeat in the Spanish Civil War. The Spanish refugees anticipated a better reception than they received. [5] Most returned to Spain or were resettled elsewhere but, at the end of 1939, between 160,000 and ...