Students who wanted to see the sea. Francoist repression against education freedom

by sergi | Oct 21, 2015

Debate and projection of the documentary “El Retratista” (The portrait maker) The film tells the story of the young teacher Antoni Benaiges, who was assigned to a rural school in Buñuelos de Brueba (Burgos) in the year 1934-35. During that year he applied...

Srebrenica, memory of a genocide

by EUROM | Jun 20, 2015

Through the European Observatory on Memories (EUROM), the UB Solidarity Foundation (FSUB) organises a number of activities around the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide devoted to the memory and remembrance of the facts that took place in 1995 in that town in...

Armenia, 100 years after the genocide

by EUROM | Apr 27, 2015

The 24th of April 2015 marked the centenary of the Armenian genocide. With the aim to remember it, the European Observatory on Memories promotes this exhibition with photographs by Andreu Fernández (photojournalist) and text by historian David Devesa, produced by the...

EPCC du Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes

by EUROM | Dec 9, 2014

At the last stage of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), while the troops of General Franco advanced towards Catalan land, more than 450,000 Spanish republicans were forced to flee and cross the border to France. Sometime before that, the government of Édouard Daladier...

Memorial Heritage Mapping Project

by sergi | Jun 10, 2014