Spanish-Republic Exiliates in World War II

Picture 1

Mauthausen survivors cheer the soldiers of the Second Armored Division of the U.S. Third Army one day after their actual liberation. The banner reads: "The Spanish Anti-Fascists Salute the Liberating Forces." According to P. Serge Choumoff, an historian and survivor of Mauthausen, this event was recreated at the request of General Eisenhower. (USHMM Photo Archives photograph #68210.)

Credit line: National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Date: May 6, 1945.
Locale: Mauthausen, Austria.
Photographer: US Army Signal Corps.
Source: National Archives, College Park, MD.

Picture 2

Spanish Republicans at forced labor in the quarry at Mauthausen. They are dragging a wagon loaded with earth (USHMM Photo Archives photograph #18229.)

Credit line: Francisco Boix Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Date: 1942.
Locale: Mauthausen, Austria.
Sources: National Archives, College Park, MD.
Dokumentationsarchiv des Osterreichischen Widerstandes, Vienna, Austria
Jerzy Tomaszewski, Warszawa, Poland
Landauer Collection
Mauthausen Museum Archives, Wien, Austria.

Foto 3

Homage to the Spanish Republicans victims of Mauthausen.

Credits: Florida Center for Instructional Technology

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Last update on Sunday, February 18th, 2001, by José María González