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Lest We Forget

Les camps du silence: screening at the Memorial of Rivesaltes

Kate 04/12/2023 0 Comments

History tells the facts – Art tells the story

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Friedel BOHNY-REITER: Exhibition in Thuir

Kate 31/10/2023 1 Comment

When the deportations began in August 1942, Friedel smuggled Jewish children out of the camp to children’s homes

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Collioure 1940: When sea front became war front

Kate 09/06/2023 0 Comments

At the Musée moderne of Collioure the latest exhibition, Le front de Mer, Canet, Collioure and Banyuls,1940 takes an unwavering look at history….

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Filmed in the P-O: (and elsewhere) Aqui y alli

Kate 18/02/2021 0 Comments

TONIGHT, THURSDAY 25TH FEBRUARY, ONLINE

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French Resistance fighters awarded honorary MBEs

Laura McLellan 22/06/2020 0 Comments

Four French Resistance fighters receive honorary MBEs from Britain in recognition of their role defending the UK, France and other Allies in the Second World War.

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The Unknown Soldier (le soldat inconnu)

Kate 05/05/2020 0 Comments

The unknown soldier (le Soldat inconnu) was buried on November 11, 1920, two years after the end of the ironically named ‘War to End All Wars’. 

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Poster Boy makes good: Antoni Clavé at Musée Rigaud

Kate 12/03/2019 0 Comments

Artist Antoni Clavé was one of the many thousands of Spaniards who had to flee from the forces of Franco (the “retirada”) and ended up in a camp near Perpignan.

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A PLAGUE ON YOU! VALLSERA

Kate 01/02/2019 0 Comments

The entire population of the former village of Vallsera, (Balcera) near les Angles, was wiped out by the Black Death at the beginning of the XIV century…..

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La Retirada 80 Years On

Laura McLellan 28/01/2019 0 Comments

2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the exodus of the Spanish Republicans fleeing persecution from the Franco regime.

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Stories from Espadrille Country: Coustouges

Kate 17/02/2017 0 Comments

In the living memory of the elderly are brothers and fathers going off to one or other to war, and the stories of those who never returned.

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