Sorry if this is the wrong place to look, my Grandmother is looking for the grave of one of our relatives who died during the spanish civil war. Does anyone know of a database where we could find such information?

I was reading No Pasaran: Writings from the Civil War recently, and I came across this passage which I found fascinating, albeit vague:

"...the landowners, under Franco, forced the rural workers to re-enact every year the violent murder of a landowner in 1936, a ritual of submission designed to keep them in their place.”

Does anyone know any more about this? There was no other contextual information in the passage, just that this happened in a small town in the years after the war.

Hello comrades I am visiting Granada for a week with my partner and would love to see some historic sites or buildings from the civil war. We are both politically active at home and would like to pay our respects to those who fought fascism, as well as see first hand the places where the battles took place - I’m really interested in seeing particular buildings or streets where specific fighting took place rather than just museums or monuments (although these are welcome too) and would love to hear any specialist or interesting details people have about Granada and the war Many thanks No Pasaran!

I am looking for Spanish military surplus from the Spanish Civil War or from Francos Regime does anyone know of some websites where I can find some any help is gladly appreciated My family fought for the nationalists and i would like to collect some items from that time peroid.

I’m looking for recommendations of audiobooks about the Spanish Civil War. They can be history, (auto)biography/memoir or fiction. I’ve just read i.e. listened to , Homage to Catalonia and I’ve previously read For Whom The Bell Tolls so not those, and I’m particularly interested in a good overview of the conflict. Thanks in advance.

I just picked up a Mauser made in 1923 was wondering if this was used during the war?

All though there is records of 75 White Russian veterans serving under Franco during Spanish Civil War, was there ever a record for a White Russian Regiment or Company during Spanish Civil War?

Hello everyone!

I have recently developed a website that helps navigate the multiple archives that contain information about people that participated or suffered the consequences of the Spanish Civil War. You can access it here: https://buscar.combatientes.es

So far, there are over 4.5 million entries in the database, which reference over 2.3 million "unique" names (many people will have several entries). While many of these entries just points you in the direction of the physical archive where you will be able to access them, many others can be consulted online!

There are a couple of features that I believe can be of great help (both for researchers and family members that want to find out more about their relatives) in trying to locate new information:

1. Multiple archives contain information about this period, but there is no central place to run our searches. Usually, these archives have their own website, or even pdf-lists, so looking for different people can be very time consuming and requires being an expert to know all the different sources and how to search them. This website aggregates all of their databases into a central one, providing links to the source of the material.
2. Given the nature of how many of these records were produced, it is very common to find misspellings of names and surnames, or simple typos, that could make it very difficult, if not impossible, to find. The way I built the website, you can see all the records available while keeping 2 of the 3 "variables" (name, surname1 and surname2) constant, and changing one at a time. This is accessible from the right column (and a further filter can be found of "suspects" of being a misspelling on the left column).
3. As part of this project, I am coordinating a volunteer-group that is indexing many sources available online (but that come from documents that are not "searchable"). So far, we have added over 43,000 names to the database this way, coming from different Spanish online archives and the Russian Archives of the International Brigades.

For now, the website is only in Spanish, but it should be fairly simple to navigate. Also, please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about its functioning! I hope this can be helpful to many of you!

As an example, these are the results for Kenneth Graeber, the father of the late writer and anthropologist David Graeber (author of Debt: The first 5,000 years, and Bullshit Jobs, among others).

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I began writing an essay on the CNT and also general anarchist presence during the war out of boredom but couldn't actually find the information I needed. I have trouble understanding anything relating to history on the internet because everything seems out of order. Is there a specific site or book anyone could recommend?

I know troops from the Northern part of Morocco and Ifni fought mostly for the nationalists. Does anyone know what involvement there was from Cape Juby?

Organizing my high school’s historical crisis cabinet about the Spanish Civil War rn and I’m in a stump about allocations. Need about 20 more relevant Republican characters and 15 more Nationalist ones. Anyone have character recommendations?

Who do you think are some of the most relevant figures from each side? Besides Franco, Mola, Azana and Caballero ofc

On the 80th anniversary of the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, we are asking for your support in bringing to life some of the most iconic republican posters and photos of milicianas in a beautiful photo-book, contextualized with timeless quotes from women who fought in World War II.

Selected testimonies from veteran Soviet women soldiers were chosen from The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature. The brilliant work was translated in English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (used with permission).

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Many supporters of our first project, the 2019 Spanish Civil War Republican calendar, have asked for more posters and photos of these powerful women, represented in vintage propaganda.

We will create a beautiful book featuring 80 vintage posters and photos of powerful women figures. 

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From her heel to her revolver the image on our cover is one of a courageous strong woman, capable of everything. Our book wants to be a showcase for a certain feminine type that leads to the defense of specific combat values. Cannot think of a better representation of the contemporaneous Spanish women and their struggles.

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Our photos are contextualized with poignant quotations from Soviet combat women who survived WW II and shared their memories to Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Literature Prize, in her amazing book, War's Unwomanly Face / La guerra no tiene rostro de mujer.

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A particular feature of the SCW was the appearance of women as fighters (milicianas, brigadistas) - on the streets, or behind the cameras, as photographers. Our book wants to offer a humble testimony to the courage and dedication, the resilience of these amazing milicianas and their women photographers: Gerda Taro, Kati Horna, Margaret Michaelis or Tina Modotti. 

A perfect showcase of milicianas courage and defiance. In a way, a splendid embodiment of today Spanish women. Gerda Taro died at age 26, in battle. Here, below, one of her most iconic photograph.

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Please back our project by pledging for a photo book on kickstarter http://kck.st/2Mtx8j4

I'm very interested in The Spanish Civil war, but can't find any real books that show any of the mentioned above. Are there any recommendations and are there any in English?