The Franco regime took 30,000 children from leftists between 1939-1953 and used adoptive families or Francoist care homes to turn the youngsters against their parents’ ideas. These removals morphed into a criminal enterprise: between 1953-1990 doctors and nurses sold around 300,000 children into adoption.Speakers and conference:- Peter Anderson: Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century European History at the University of Leeds. He isresearching child-removal in twentieth-century Spain – Montserrat Armengou: Journalist and documentary maker based at TV3 in Catalonia. She made the ground-breaking documentary ‘The Lost Children of Francoism’.- Soledad Luque: President of the association ‘All the Stolen Children are also My Children’. She is searching for a lost sibling.- Q&A Session- Drinks receptionLA CONFERENCIA SE TRADUCIRÁ AL ESPAÑOL / THE CONFERENCE WILL BE TRANSLATED IN SPANISH

Fonte: The Lost Children of Francoism Tickets, Wed, 7 Jun 2017 at 18:30 | Eventbrite