La Retirada, l’exil des Républicains espagnols

"La Retirada", c'est l'exode massif des réfugiés espagnols de la guerre civile. C’était il y a 80 ans.
© Isabelle Lassalle / France Bleu Roussillon
crédits photos : AFP et Collection Eric Forcada, Perpignan.

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MARY ELMES -
Born: May 5, 1908, Cork, Ireland. Died: March 9, 2002, Perpignan, France.
Righteous Among Nations: June 27, 2014, Canet-en-Rousillion, France.

Marie Elisabeth Jean ELMES was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children from Rivesaltes camp during the Holocaust, by hiding them in the boot of her car. Before that she had worked in a hospital in Almeria, treating sick children during the Spanish Civil War.

Close to the beach at Argèles-sur-Mer, where more than 100, 000 refugees were penned in between the ocean and the barbed wire, stands the historic castle of Valmy.

3 September 1939, a community of 12 refugee artists put on an exhibition of their paintings, drawings and sculpture in the castle grounds.

Dorothy A.Morris and Mary Elmes, Quakers, visited the Mas de l'Abat and wrote the following sentence in the "livre d'or" where visitors to the mas used to write compliments for these exiled artists “Spirit and enthusiasm are the most important things in life, and these the Spaniards will have for ever.” It’s signed, “Dorothy A Morris & Mary Elmes, Los Amigos Quakeros (the Quaker Friends)”.

Mary Elmes was member of the Quaker organisation that helped Spanish Republicans refugees in French concentration camp at Argelès in 1939, after the Spanish Civil War.

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