History tells the facts – Art tells the story
When the deportations began in August 1942, Friedel smuggled Jewish children out of the camp to children’s homes
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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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.
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’.
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.
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…..
2019 marks the 80th anniversary of the exodus of the Spanish Republicans fleeing persecution from the Franco regime.
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.