Other research

MINISTÉRIO DOS NEGÓCIOS ESTRANGEIROS. ARQUIVO DIPLOMATICO (LISBOA)

The following documents have been consulted:

• London Committee.
• Various copies of Portuguese notes on the non-intervention agreement in the Spanish civil war
• Copies of Portuguese notes on the accusations of the Russian and British governments – undated.
• Various Barcelona newspapers.
• Foreign press reports on the civil war in Spain.
• Holy See and Spain.
• Copy of an information received from the representative of the Burgos government in Brussels about a Mr. Cabrita (From the Legation in Brussels).
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ARQUIVO NACIONAL DA TORRE DO POMBO

• Arquivo Oliveira Salazar (NE-9)
• Censored articles from the Jornal O’Seculo (1937).
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Consultation of the Belgian press in 1937 in relation to the Civil War in Euskadi, the bombing of Gernika and the exile.

Institute where a lot of documents were taken over the Pyrenees in 1939, a few weeks before Franco took the last Republican areas in the North. Research will be carried out specifically in the José Martínez Guerricabeitia and the Fernando Gomez Peláez Collections that contain a great deal of graphic and written documentation on the Civil War in the Basque Country.

In June 2006 it was officially announced that documents from the Vatican Secret Archive on the Pontificate of Pius XI were to be opened to researchers, and that these could be consulted from September of that year. The declassification of these documents dating from 1922 to 1939 provides new data on the conduct of the Holy See during the Spanish Civil War.
In January 2007, Iratxe Momoitio Astorkia, Director of the Peace Museum in Gernika, and Ana Teresa Nuñez Monasterio, Head of the Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika and the Civil War, went to Rome to consult these declassified documents and to reproduce any interesting material to bring it back to Gernika so that it could be consulted by the public.

In this first phase of research they were able to consult everything concerning the Nunciature of Madrid where lists of Basque refugee children, letters from children sent to their families from abroad, Monsignor Antoniutti’s correspondence, etc are kept.

In the second phase of their research in March 2008 they looked through all the documents in Affari Ecclesiastici Straordinari. Spagna 1937. Fondo Segreteria di Stato that had still not been opened up to be consulted on their first visit to the archive.
Once the research phase is over and the documents have been catalogued, they will be available to be consulted in the Documentation Centre.