About Family Secrets of the Spanish Civil War - The Podcast
Two historians, formerly teacher and student, share their research discoveries and family stories connected to the Spanish Civil War through the lenses of family history, politics, labor, and migration. Daniel Czitrom taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts for 41 years and Patricia Schechter currently teaches at Portland State University in Oregon. Czitrom’s book is a memoir entitled Kitchen Table History: Wrestling with my Family’s Radical Past and Schechter’s book is a study of an important mining town in Andalusia titled El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939.
Porta de la Historia Blog – A website for those who wish to explore the Spanish Civil War: https://pdlhistoria.wordpress.com/
Alum Menai Williams, From the Rhondda to the Ebro: The Story of a Young Life and its Survival in the First Half of the 20th century. Pontypool (Wales): Warren & Pell, 2004.
Harry Randall photography of the Spanish Civil War at New York University: https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/tamwag/alba_photo_011/
Memorial to the sinking of the ship Ciudad de Barcelona: https://albavolunteer.org/2022/08/new-monument-in-catalonia-commemorates-ib-victims-on-torpedoed-ship/
31 Aug 2026
Episode Twelve - Adrian Pole: The International Brigades and ‘The Spanish People’
THE BOOK: Making Antifascist War: The International Brigades’ Transnational Encounters with Civil-War Spain, 1936-1939. Cambridge University Press, 2025.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-antifascist-war/1E17AAE0B6A876C0FDFDC56C8F278B6F (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-antifascist-war/1E17AAE0B6A876C0FDFDC56C8F278B6F)
THE ARCHIVE: Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History (RGASPI) digitized
https://komintern.dlibrary.org/ru/nodes/10907-delo-210-albom-s-pismami-i-risunkami-detey-ispanskogo-goroda-mataro-podarennyy-dobrovoltsam-interbrigad (https://komintern.dlibrary.org/ru/nodes/10907-delo-210-albom-s-pismami-i-risunkami-detey-ispanskogo-goroda-mataro-podarennyy-dobrovoltsam-interbrigad)
25 Feb 2026
Episode Eleven - The Warren Family
Alvin Warren (nee Cohen): Warren, Alvin | The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (https://alba-valb.org/volunteers/alvin-warren/)
Maury Colow (married my Anna Hamberger’s sister): Colow, Maury | The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (https://alba-valb.org/volunteers/maury-colow/)
Arthur Munday (married my Alvin Warren’s sister): Munday, Arthur | The Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (https://alba-valb.org/volunteers/arthur-munday/)
2 Feb 2026
Episode Ten - Foster Chamberlain and The Spanish Civil Guard
Foster Chamberlain and The Spanish Civil Guard
10 Nov 2025
Episode Nine - Pablo Lopez
Interview with Pablo Lopez, author of La Desbandá
https://yopablo.itch.io/la-desbanda-english (https://yopablo.itch.io/la-desbanda-english)
2 Oct 2025
Episode Eight - Carmen Ripollés and the artist Josefa de Óbidos
Purchase Josefa de Óbidos from Lund Humphries (https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/josefa-de-obidos)
Purchase Josefa de Óbidos from The Getty Museum Store (https://shop.getty.edu/products/josefa-de-obidos-978-1606069851?srsltid=AfmBOoo5LIrlT1v643rCsINfuqsZ7pwr2Z7MiSJ8RJopm9Vr-ZC5pDw7)
Burriana, julio 1938 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK9BRy3w9Jw) Youtube
Exposición "Revistas y Guerra, 1936-39" (2007) (https://www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/revistas-guerra-1936-1939)
1 May 2025
Episode Seven - Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez Interview
In this episode, leading historian Antonio Cazorla-Sánchez talks about the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War that he co-founded, the only museum in the world completely dedicated to the war. He also pays tribute to the women who kept alive the memory of family members lost under Franco's repression in his home town of Almería, Spain.Visit the Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War at https://www.vscw.ca/ (https://www.vscw.ca/)
12 Jan 2025
Episode Six - Michael Ugarte Interview
Distinguished literary scholar Michael Ugarte shares the remarkable story of his grandfather's career as a Spanish writer and politician, shedding light on the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.
1 Oct 2024
Episode Three - Battlefields, Cemeteries & Sacred Places
In searching for relatives whom they’ve never met, Daniel and Patricia explore the stories and silences kept in Spanish graveyards, burial sites, and cemeteries that they visited during their research.
1 Oct 2024
Episode Two - The Family Politics of War
In the ideological cauldron of war, how do individuals end up on “sides”? Daniel and Patricia explore that it’s not as simple as left versus right, despite the propaganda of the 1930s.
1 Oct 2024
Episode Four - Political Struggle & Personal Strife
The personal is the political, except when it’s not. Sometimes the need for survival is a driver.
1 Oct 2024
Episode Five - Stories, Silences, & Secrets
There is the book you want to write. Then there is the book you ended up writing. The co-hosts reflect on their historians’ journey and the sometimes stubborn, sometimes sacred silences they encountered along the way.
1 Oct 2024
Episode One - The Ghosts that Haunt Us
Co-hosts Daniel and Patricia introduce the family members at the heart of their Spanish Civil War stories: Ben Barsky, combatant in one of the International Brigades and José Becerra, a high-placed official in the city hall of Pueblonuevo del Terrible (Córdoba) Spain.
12 Aug 2024
Introduction
In this podcast, two historians, formerly teacher and student, share their research discoveries and family stories connected to the Spanish Civil War. Dan Czitrom taught at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts for 41 years and Patricia Schechter currently teaches at Portland State University in Oregon. Czitrom’s book is a memoir entitled Kitchen Table History: Wrestling with my Family’s Radical Past and Schechter’s book is a study of an important mining town in Andalusia titled El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939. Each takes a fresh look at the Spanish Civil War through the lenses of family history, politics, labor, and migration. Their conversations explore revelations from the archives as well as the family silences which cannot and even should not be broken.
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Michael Ugarte
Artemia Precioso Garcia
Elena Forún
Donato Ndongo
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