Guillermo LeĂłn CĂĄceres, National Distance Education University (UNED) Cover image: A Travelling Seminar with the EUROM Team and AMECADEC (2024). Photograph: EUROM A Brief History of Castuera Concentration Camp In March 1939, as the Spanish Civil War drew to a close, the Francoist military authorities built a concentration camp for prisoners on the outskirts of …
Dietmar J. Wetzel, MSH Medical School, Hamburg & University of Basel Cover image: Salvador Allende Square, Paris (7th Arrondissement), November 12, 2023, March against anti-Semitism. National Rally elected officials, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella surrounded by journalists. Siren-Com, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. 1. Introduction â Memory in a fragmented Europe1 In an …
Kostis Kornetis, Universidad AutĂłnoma de Madrid. Academic Advisor of the Commissioner for the Commemoration of âSpain in Freedom: 50 yearsâ Cover image: Screenshots from the video of the campaign Democracy Is Your Power, presented as the closing highlight of the Spain in Freedom commemoration. The word ârestlessâ in this articleâs title echoes Inquietud. Libertad y …
By Carmina GustrĂĄn Loscos, Commissioner for the Commemoration of âSpain in Freedom: 50 yearsâ. 20 November 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Francisco Francoâs death. At the Commission of âSpain in Freedom: 50 yearsâ, we focus on the possibilities that his passing created, on the long and difficult journey towards regaining freedom and democracy. In 2025, we remember the beginning of that collective achievement; we celebrate the prosperous, diverse and democratic nation that we have become. Also, we would like to invite all citizens to join us in reflecting on the future, on what kind of country and what kind of democracy we aspire to build together.
Interview with Amos Goldberg Amos Goldberg (Jerusalem, 1966) is a professor in the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Goldberg has held research fellowships at international institutions such as Cornell University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, CUNY and …
In the 1970s, the collapse of the Estado Novo (New State) and the Francoist state took place, two of the longest-lasting dictatorships in the contemporary history of Western Europe. This year marks half a century since the military coup carried out by officers of the Armed Forces Movement (MFA) that overthrew Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano, leading to the Carnation Revolution on 25 April 1974. Next year will mark 50 years since the death of the dictator Francisco Franco on 20 November 1975, who became head of state during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the beginning of the political shift towards the transition to democracy in Spain.Â
The participation of Spanish women in the French Resistance remains one of the great unresolved issues in the historiography of Republican exile and the Second World War. For decades, researchers and activists on both sides of the Pyrenees have denounced their neglect by both academia and society, an assertion that is now largely untrue. In recent years, the growing concern for gender issues and women’s history has led to a greater public presence and their inclusion across the board in the most recent research. However, there are still no specific studies of this particular group of women, largely due to the problem of the limited availability and fragmentation of sources, as well as the way in which they have been constructed in memorials since 1944.Â
The architectural and artistic heritage of ForlĂŹ includes a work of great value, both from a cultural and historical point of view â the mosaics in the former Aeronautical College, now a school for 11â14-year-olds. This is a truly impressive work of art dating back to the second half of the 1930s, based on drawings by Angelo Canevari and dedicated to the theme of flight. More precisely, they depict the myth of flight and the relationship between man and the conquest of the skies as interpreted by the Fascist regime. The mosaics are perhaps the most striking example of the âdissonantâ heritage of the city of ForlĂŹ â the âcittĂ del Duceâ rebuilt as a showcase for Fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, but a city awarded the âsilver medal for its part in the Resistance (âMedaglia dâargento al valor militare per attivitĂ partigianaâ) and with a strong post-war tradition of antifascism. The mosaics have an undoubted artistic value alongside a cultural and historical value as an example of the propaganda of the Fascist regime.Â
In his work Voices from Chernobyl (2015), in the chapter âMonologue on Why People Rememberâ, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich presents us with the testimony of the psychologist Piotr S., who asks, why do people remember? âIs it to restore truth? Justice? To free themselves and forget? Because they realise they have been part of a great event? Or because they seek some form of protection in the past?â This is the account of an âordinaryâ man, reflecting on one of the human tragedies that, beyond the intention to quantify it through the force of its death toll, impacts as profoundly as the Holocaust, the repression and disappearance of people during the civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, or the more than nine million people recognised as victims of the social and armed conflict in Colombia.Â
New museums and (political) narratives in Slovenia Kaja Ć irokHistorian. Assistant professor at the University of Nova Gorica Cover image: Part of the permanent exhibition âSlovenians in the 20th centuryâ, which tells the story of the independence and democratisation of the country; JoĆŸe Suhadolnik/DELO In March 2021, on the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the …