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July 8, 2010
Exclusive
to the online Volunteer: A reflection on
historical memory a propos of Bloody Sunday (the Saville Enquiry Report was published last month) and the Spanish Civil
War, by Trisha Ziff, curator of photography (Hidden Truths: Bloody Sunday) and filmmaker (Chevolution), currently directing the
documentary, La Maleta Mexicana/The Mexican Suitcase. Read the...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/special-feature-essay-historical-memory-in-spain-and-northern-ireland/
July 13, 2010
As reported earlier, the Spain's 2007 Law of Historical Memory did not annul Francoist sentences,
although it did, ambiguously, declare the tribunals that issued them to be
“illegitimate.” As a result, it is now up to individual victim's families to
request actual legal annulments. After Andulucía's request for
an annulment in the...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/family-of-miguel-hernandez-requests-annulment-of-sentence/
July 10, 2010
An
hour-long radio debate on
the impunity of Francoist repression and the possibilities of seeking of legal
recourse, broadcast last month by Contratiempo. Featuring Emilio Silva,
founding president of the Association for the Recuperation of Historical
Memory, as well as three magistrates: Ramón Saéz Valcarcel, Ignacio
Ubaldo González de la Vega, and José Miguel García...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/debate-on-francoist-impunity/
July 10, 2010
Los Canadienses: Canadians in the
Spanish Civil War, Albert Kish's hour-long documentary
from 1975 on Canadian
volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, is now viewable in six parts on YouTube.
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-canadians-in-scw-online/
July 5, 2010
The
Catalan news program 30 Minuts has made an hour-long documentary on Agustí Centelles, the Spanish
Civil War photographer whose archive was recently bought by the Spanish
government, and whose portrait of a young black volunteer set off a global detective search. See the documentary
here (in Catalan):
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/documentary-on-agusti-centelles/
July 5, 2010
After years of hard work,Carmen Negrín,
the granddaughter of Spanish Republican Prime Minister Juan Negrín, is gratified, she tells the
Spanish newspaper Público, to
see her grandfather's voluminous papers turned into a major national archive.
Meanwhile, ALBA board member Gabriel Jackson has just published a major biography of Negrín (review forthcoming in...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/negrin/
July 5, 2010
What exactly is the legal status of the
hundreds of thousands of sentences issued by Francoist tribunals during and
after the Civil War? To the frustration of many associated with the movement
calling for a "recovery of historical memory," Spain's "Historical Memory Law"
of 2007 did not include an a massive annulment
of...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/annullment-of-sentences-after-all/
July 2, 2010
Seventy years ago, Rafael Leónidas
Trujillo, the ruthless dictator of the Dominican Republic, welcomed the
first group of Spanish Republican refugees, initiating one of the most
contradictory and tragic episodes of the postwar Spanish diaspora--an event on
whose commemoration in the DR Público reports today. Trujillo's generosity
toward the thousands of Spaniards fleeing Franco and...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/07/dominican-republic-commemorates-arrival-of-spanish-refugees/
June 29, 2010
La mula, a new internationally-produced Spanish-language comedy set during the Spanish Civil War--co-written and directed by Michael Radford (Il Postino)--may never see the light of day, Variety reports:
Three
of Europe's highest-ranking film executives -- U.K.'s
John Woodward, Spain's
Ignasi Guardans and Ireland's
Simon Perry -- are battling to save...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/radfords-new-scw-film-in-jeopardy/
June 27, 2010
The
official map of mass graves dating from the Civil War in Andalusia, released after
a five years of research, offers an inventory of almost six hundred different
unmarked burial sites. The mass grave at the San Rafael cemetery in
Málaga is assumed to contain more than four thousand bodies, making it the...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/map-of-mass-graves-in-andalusia-reveals-almost-600-burial-sites/
June 22, 2010
More
coverage, this time in the Guardian, on the exhibit of Spanish Civil War
friends Kati Horna, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington (see earlier post). Includes video.
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/surreal-friends-horna-varo-carrington/
June 22, 2010
Earlier this year Magnum, the photo
agency founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, and "Chim"
Seymour, sold its photojournalism archive (more than 185,000 prints) to a
private investment company owned by Michael Dell, which in turn has handed it
over to the Harry Ransom Center
at the University of Texas in Austin.
The HRC...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/magnum-photo-archives-publicly-accessible/
June 22, 2010
Spain's dictator Francisco Franco, who
won the Spanish Civil War in 1939 with significant help from Hitler Germany,
repaid the favor two years later by handing the Nazi regime "a list of
every Jew in his country in order to facilitate efforts to locate, deport and
destroy them," today's Ha'aretz reports, based on...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/franco-gave-hitler-lists-of-spanish-jews/
June 16, 2010
The Filmstage reports that James Gandolfini, aka Tony Soprano, will be producing a film on Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn for HBO, starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman, and directed by Philip Kaufman (The Right Stuff, The Unbearable Lightness of Being).:
Gellhorn,
considered one of the greatest war correspondents of all...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/green-light-for-hemingway-gellhorn-film/
June 16, 2010
Just uploaded
to YouTube: "Contra la impunidad" (Against Impunity), a
nine-minute video put together by Pedro Almodóvar's production company, in
which a number of well-known Spanish actors and intellectuals (including Pilar
and Javier Bardem, Juan Diego, and Almodóvar himself) read first-person
narratives of victims of Nationalist and Francoist repression. The video
emphasizes that...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/prominent-spaniards-read-victims-testimonies/
June 15, 2010
Joanna
Moorhead, writing in The
Independent, reveals that
the two Hungarian photographers of the Spanish Civil War were in love: He was
the legendary war photographer, a man who alternated dodging death on
battlefields with a glamorous, star-studded life-style; she was a
self-effacing, left-wing intellectual who preferred to stay out of the
limelight, hidden...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/capa-and-kati-horna/
June 12, 2010
Silas Martí writes in the Folha de Sao Paolo on Juan Salas' discovery of Henri Cartier-Bresson's long-lost Spanish Civil War documentary, With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain (clip here):
Na época, o artista já tinha uma reputação como fotógrafo
de toada surrealista. Mas,
na volta ao cinema por...
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http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/06/sao-paolo-newspaper-covers-cartier-bresson-find/