Never again! Images of war 1936-1939 It’is a selection of the best images -over 100 of them- from the book of the same title published by the Sabino Arana Foundation, showing the violence wreaked in the Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939…
Tema: History
The Ringelblum Archives: the Hidden History of the Warsaw Ghetto
The exhibition The Ringelblum Archives: the Hidden History of the Warsaw Ghetto reconstructs a little known episode, but one which is of key importance to our understanding of the Shoà (Holocaust) and the events of the Nazi occupation of Poland…
Memories of stone and steel. Monuments to the victims of the Civil War and Francoism in the Basque Country
The recovery of the history and memory of republican victims of the Civil War has, in the last decade, become a key dynamic in the Basque Autonomous Community. There are many demonstrations of this recovery of memory, driven by several different political bodies, human rights organisations, associations and descendants of victims…
Fernando Hierro. The history of Gernika in Watercolours.
This exhibition shows us a historical view of Gernika, starting with the 1st century and leading up to the Gernika of the 20th century before the bombing.
The visitor is offered the chance to go back in time to the beginnings of Gernika…
The Basque Government and the Spanish Civil War
This time the exhibition is a selection of books concerning the behaviour of the Basque Government during the Civil War since the Statute was passing and the Basque Government was created until the conquest of Biscay by Franco’s army in June 1937…
Condor Legion
The support of the Condor Legion was decisive for the victory of General Franco in the Spanish Civil war. One of the objectives of this German military unit under the command of General Hugo Sperrle and whose Chief Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, was to experiment with new methods and strategies of combat on what was already called in 1936 ‘The next war’, the Second World War.
76th Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika
Commemoration of the 76th Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika with differents events organized by the town hall of Gernika, the Gernika Peace Museum, the Gernika Culture…
Memory and Exile
The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika organises bibliographic exhibitions with the aim of disseminating its bibliographic collections. On this occasion the theme is Memory and Exile.
Brussels, a Forerunner to Gernika (1695-1937)
The south of the Netherlands was attacked on numerous occasions in the middle of the 17th century, as Louis XIV, the ‘Sun King’, was determined to overpower these lands ruled by the Spanish Crown.
