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Fleeing Franco: How Wales gave shelter to refugee children from the Basque country during the Spanish Civil War
ISBN: 9780708323373
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Wales Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History;

This book tells the story of the Basque children who came to Wales during the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, with civil war raging in Spain, 3,862 Basque children fled their country. They were packed onto an old cruise liner that left Bilbao for Southampton. Throughout the summer children were dispersed to camps throughout Britain. Eight of those camps were in Wales.