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Angela Giral, former director
of the Avery Library, championed the project
of bringing these drawings to the Web and reaching
out to those who may have been affected by these
mass relocations. She explains her personal connection
to these drawings:
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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.
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Angela Giral, Former Director
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library
Columbia University, MC-0301
1172 Amsterdam Avenue,
New York, NY, 10027
giral@columbia.edu
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Ramon Hernandez Amigo,
Centro Español, Cerbère
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Antonio Sanchez,
Residencia Infantil #6, San Juan
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Mercedes Comellas Ricart,
Centro Español, Cerbère
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