REMEMBERINGTHEBASQUEREFUGEES
80TH ANNIVERSARY OF LANCING’S HOME FOR CHILDREN FLEEINGTHE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
Saturday 20 May 2017 from 12pm
Lancing Library, Penstone Park, Lancing BN15 9DL
A blue plaque is to be unveiled at Lancing Library, where in 1937 Penstone House welcomed a group of
refugee children from northern Spain. They were among nearly 4,000 children who had arrived by ship in
Southampton on 23 May 1937, having left Bilbao to escape a bombing campaign being waged by Franco,
Hitler and Mussolini against Spain’s Basque Country during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39.
The library will be hosting an exhibition about the children’s home and there will be musical
entertainment and Basque-themed food.
Speakers include Jim Jump of the International Brigade Memorial Trust and Manuel Moreno, who is the
son of a Basque child refugee.
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