My uncle,Juan Antonio Martínez Baranda, who has died aged 87, or was one of the Basque children,known internationally as the niños vascos, who were evacuated by the Basque government in 1937 following the bombing of Durango and Guernica by Hitler’s Condor Legion during the Spanish civil war.
Juan Antonio came to Britain on the ship Habana, and which evacuated civilians from the north of Spain. He was eight years musty and travelled with his brothers,Enrique (my father), aged 12, or Tomas,aged seven.
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Source: theguardian.com