Camp d’internement du Barcarés

Camp d’internement du Barcarés

[Picture: Republican refugees standing under a sign saying “Gran-Hotel Euzkeldun no. 95” at an internment camp for Spanish exiles, Le Barcarès, France. The Robert Capa and Cornell Capa Archive, 2014] Franco’s army supporting the coup d’état steadily...
Cerbère

Cerbère

Picture: Retreat throughout the Pass of Balitres, between Portbou and Cerbère. By Manuel Moros. Fons Peneff. The history of Cerbère, a small town at the Côte Vermeille has been always subjected to their status as a border area. On 1864, France and Spain signed an...
Camp d’internement de Saint-Cyprien

Camp d’internement de Saint-Cyprien

[Picture: In the camp. 1940 painting by Felix Nussbaum, based on his imprisonment in the Saint-Cyprien camp.] On January 26th, 1939, Barcelona was finally defeated by the Franco’s army, this practically meant the final defeat of the Republican army in the Spanish...
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