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Digital History Seminar: 20th Century Spain

Madge Addy March 2nd, 1939 Letters

In another one of her letters from March 1939 she would describe their need for certain donations from the Spanish Medical Aid Committee. In one she specifically talks about how they had received 600 men that were wounded and most needed clothing. Because of the supplies sent by the Committee they were not in such a dire need for supplies that they would have been in previously had they not received the supplies. In another section of her letter from March 2nd, 1939 she describes a surgery for a man who was suffering from hemorrhages in his stomach. The doctor had to perform a three hour long surgery due to the fact that this was one of the first times that the doctor had attempted this kind of surgery and lack of better materials. The only had three needles available for the operation. The problem occured when three quarters of the way through the surgery the spinal anesthetic wore off because it was “rotten.” The result of this was that the doctor had to finish the surgery while he was awake. Later on she mentions that she hopes he will recover and that the odd tins of milk and soups they received would help his exhaustion and shock sustained after the surgery. Addy speaks very fondly of those that she was able to help during her time in Spain. She feels better knowing that the people whose lives she impacted will never forget their English nurse.

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2. Asistencia social: pro inválidos
3. Tragedy of Civil War (1937)
4. Ajut als mutilats de guerra
5. Messerschmitt BF 109B1
6. Bombardement Guernica - Cinémathèque de Bretagne
8. Madge Addy March 2nd, 1939 Letters In another one of her letters from March 1939 she would describe their need for certain donations from the Spanish Medical Aid Committee. In one she specifically talks about how they had received 600 men that were wounded and most needed clothing. Because of the supplies sent by the Committee they were not in such a dire need for supplies that they would have been in previously had they not received the supplies. In another section of her letter from March 2nd, 1939 she describes a surgery for a man who was suffering from hemorrhages in his stomach. The doctor had to perform a three hour long surgery due to the fact that this was one of the first times that the doctor had attempted this kind of surgery and lack of better materials. The only had three needles available for the operation. The problem occured when three quarters of the way through the surgery the spinal anesthetic wore off because it was “rotten.” The result of this was that the doctor had to finish the surgery while he was awake. Later on she mentions that she hopes he will recover and that the odd tins of milk and soups they received would help his exhaustion and shock sustained after the surgery. Addy speaks very fondly of those that she was able to help during her time in Spain. She feels better knowing that the people whose lives she impacted will never forget their English nurse.
9. ¡MUJER...! Tu felicidad conyugal está en tus manos.
10. Obrero! Trabaja Y Venceremos
11. Bolchevismo, injusticia social, politicastros, masones, separatismo, F.A.I.
12. Revista Vientos del Pozo: número extraordinario homenaje al Padre Llanos
13. Que Tu Familia No Viva el Drama de la Guerra: Evacuar Madrid es Ayudar a la Victoria Final
17. Congreso nacional de la solidaridad, 1938- Ana Pauker
19. Pro-conferencia nacional de la dona jove
20. Letter from Juan F. de Cardenas
21. Madrid Food Line
23. Episode 16- Food Scarcity and Women's Daily Lives in the Early Franco Years Audio Podcast by Historias on SoundCloud discussing the Franco Dictatorship. Immediately following the Spanish Civil War, Spain faced a terrible food crisis. Suzanne Dunai examines how the policies of the early Franco dictatorship brought on this crisis and how ordinary Spaniards, particularly women, dealt with it on a day-to-day basis. From ration cards to bartering, from canning to buying on the black market, Spanish women showed a remarkable resilience as they sought to feed their families in this time of devastating scarcity.
24. Evacuación
25. Arroyo del Abroñigal
27. Felicia Browne's Anti-Fascism poster for Italy.
29. El Generalisimo Francisco Franco Todavía esta Muerto
30. Pro monumento Pablo Iglesias
31. Madge Addy March 14th, 1939 Page 1 On March 14th, 1939 Addy talks about how she almost had to leave due to an order from England to return. Addy describes how depressed the idea of leaving would have made her. She had worked very hard and would have felt terrible to leave at that time. She had to pack her things and gave most of what she could away to those who still needed it. Fortunately she was able to stay and explain through rare telecommunication that she would feel much better in Ucles. Her duty to the hospital and to Ucles kept her from wanting to be anywhere else. Many people were overjoyed that she could remain with them. At the end of the letter she describes how Juan, the man who had to undergo the horrible surgery mentioned previously, was doing much better.
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude
33. Women! Keep War From Britain: Support Spanish Democrats
34. February 1939 - Spain - Barcelona - Associated Press of Great Britain Ltd
36. Women, Work for Comrades!
37. Franco Statue Removal
38. January 1937 - Spain - Madrid - Associated Press of Great Britain Ltd.
39. María Pilar Landa
40. Mujeres Antifacistas Espanioles
42. ¡Esto es el fascismo! miseria... destrucción... persecución... y muerte
43. Repatriation of Basque Children
44. Felicia Browne holding a child
45. Poema 17
46. Madge Addy March 14th, 1939 Page 2 These are the last paragraphs of Addy’s letter from March 14th, 1939. She talks again about how she hopes the people she has helped will never forget their English nurse. When thinking about her time in Spain she feels she has accomplished so much and saved many lives. She has made her doctor’s actions effective with her hard work. Even the villagers who she describes as a bad lot now respect her and talk to her sometimes.
47. C.N.T. Comité Nacional A.I.T., Oficina de Información y Propaganda
48. Federació de Cooperatives de Producció Treball de Catalunya
49. Book Jacket created by Felicia Browne for Anatole France's "The Revolt of the Angels."
51. Sketch of Men's faces from 1936.
52. The Ultraleftist / El Izquierdista
53. Evacuad Madrid
54. Francisco Franco's Funeral
55. Photo of Four People in Front of Supplies or Medical Van Including Felicia Browne
56. Children's Drawing of Bombing
57. Hacia El Ejercito Popular
58. Carteles Murales
59. La marina de guerra inglesa y francesa protegen la evacuación de la población no combatiente.
61. January 1940 - England - Middlesex
62. Spanish Republican News
63. Por la conquista de Euskadi y sus riquezas, el invasor siembra el terror haciendo qur sus pacíficos habitants abandonen sus hogares.
64. Children's Drawing, Spanish Civil War
65. Sisters of Mercy Arrive to Help Feed Hungry Residents of Madrid
66. Kion vi feras por eviti tion? Geesperantistoj el la tuta mondo agu energie kontrau la internacia fasismo!
67. The Republican Left Thank the Russian People for Help (1937)
68. Fascist Salute
70. Criminales!
71. Frederica Montseny speaking at CNT in 1977