Basque Refugee Children Evacuated From Spanish Civil War Arrive In England: Civil War (1936-1939)

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- (1937) Basque refugee children from the Spanish Civil War are greeted upon their arrival in Southampton, England on the SS Habana, and the evacuees at Basque Children's Camp. British Pathe/Reuters.

- * Brief History of the Spanish Civil War (1936- 1939). Good summary of the first fight for democracy against fascism. Republican, loyalist forces in Spain battled against the nationalist, fascist army of General Franco who became the dictator of Spain until his death in 1975.