The Nines

Ten refugee children from the Spanish Civil War tell

"I didn't know that woman who came to visit me from Spain after the Civil War. My mother. I wanted to go to my mama, as I always called my foster mother," says Carlos Pascual Madorran. He was four when he came to Belgium and stayed.
During the Spanish Civil War, 32,000 children were evacuated abroad. Of those, five thousand ended up in Belgium. Preschoolers and primary schoolchildren. They lived with foster families in Ghent, Mechelen, Brussels, and Liège. How did they fare later? What impact did the war have? The war children, or ninões de la guerra (children of the war), tell their stories.

Hilde Pauwels
Publisher EPO vzw, 2007, 73 p., ill, softcover