I, too, was evacuated from the war zone about the same time that these drawings were made in the children’s colonies. I had the good fortune of being evacuated by my family and taken to my grandparents in Algiers. Barely three years old at the time, if I made any drawings they were not preserved. What I remember from later years is stories about my grandfather’s obsession with trying to make me laugh ... I was a perennially sad child.
Joseph Weissberger, in his introduction to "And they still draw pictures!" calls these drawings "autobiographic pages of un-kept diaries." Some of these children never saw their parents again, others went back to Spain at the end of the war, some went into exile, like myself, and grew up in far away lands. My hope is that many are still alive and willing to add some pages to these incomplete autobiographies, bringing them up to date. With the permission of those who write I would like to post the messages in this same web-page. In any case, the information thus assembled will be kept as an electronic component of Avery’s archive on the "Spanish children’s drawings" and may one day also be deposited in the archives on the Civil War now being assembled in Spain.
If you are one of those children, or a relative that can provide some updated information on the life or whereabouts of any of them, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you.