This bar graph illustrates the home region of the evacuated Spaniards. The overwhelming majority came from the Basque Country (País Vasco) and Asturias on the northern coast of Spain.
This map represents the chief locations to which Spanish boarding schools were evacuated in 1941. We can see the Soviet intention of moving the children beyond the Ural Mountains and away from the frontline action of WW II.
This map helps to illustrate the movement of several of the main boarding schools in 1941 before and after their evacuation that summer. If you would like to learn more about the individual boarding schools, open the .kmz or...
This map illustrates the dramatic re-location of Spanish boarding schools to Moscow and its environs as Nazi forces were repelled. Spanish Communist Party officials wanted the children concentrated in Moscow for better Party...