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In 1949, as Cold War tensions in Europe mounted, French intellectual and former Buchenwald inmate David Rousset called upon fellow concentration camp survivors to denounce the Soviet Gulag as a "hallucinatory repetition" of Nazi Germany's most terrible crime. In Political Survivors, Emma Kuby tells the riveting story of what followed his appeal, as prominent members of the wartime Resistance from throughout Western Europe united to campaign against the continued existence of inhumane internment systems around the world. The International Commission against the Concentration Camp Regime brought together those originally deported for acts of anti-Nazi political activity who believed that their...
This book examines troupes, plays, festivals, performative practices, and audiences active during the final years of the Franco dictatorship and the beginning of the transition to democracy. This period, spanning 1968 to 1982, is considered the historical moment that most directly shaped contemporary Spanish politics and society. The dominant narrative of the Transition has long portrayed it as a normalized, non-confrontational, and consensual process steered by political elites. But the world of Spanish theater tells a very different story - one in which ordinary Spaniards played a vital role in the transition to democracy. The chapters of this book draw on censorship files, photographs, au...
A passionate history of fighting against all odds—the legendary war against fascism and capitalism in Spain.
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The Kenya Gazette is an official publication of the government of the Republic of Kenya. It contains notices of new legislation, notices required to be published by law or policy as well as other announcements that are published for general public information. It is published every week, usually on Friday, with occasional releases of special or supplementary editions within the week.
Si partim de l'anàlisi detallada de la secció de defuncions del Registre Civil podem conèixer amb exhaustivitat quantes persones va afectar la repressió franquista fins a les últimes conseqüències: l'afusellament davant un escamot d'execució. Les víctimes han estat classificades per grups d'edat, per professions i segons l'estat civil i, quan ha estat possible, se n'ha esbrinat la procedència geogràfica. Totes aquestes xifres, esgarrifoses, han estat, però, identificades amb els seus noms propis, en un exercici per restituir la memòria de la repressió i per dotar de cara i ulls aquells morts, molts dels quals havien estat «oblidats» a la força durant tants anys de dictadura....