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Analysis of exile of Guernica Children and Niños de Rusia

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This essay analyses the journey of exile of Guernica Children and Niños de Rusia. The documentaries are readily available online. This essay serves as an example of an essay that gained a high first and is suitable as a basis to compare and contrast the evacuation and exile experiences of the G...

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guernica children
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With reference to documentary and oral history sources, compare

and contrast the evacuation and exile experiences of the Niños de

Rusia and the Guernica Children. (2,000-2,200 words)

, The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a pivotal conflict that not only reshaped

Spain’s political landscape, but also had widespread humanitarian consequences.

One of these significant consequences was the evacuation of thousands of children

to foreign countries. This essay will focus on two documentaries about the main

groups that were evacuated: the Niños de Rusia and the Guernica Children. The

Niños de Rusia were evacuated to the Soviet Union, while the Guernica Children

found refuge in the United Kingdom. The evacuation and exile experiences of these

groups shared similarities in their motivations and challenges, but diverged in terms

of political indoctrination, cultural adaptation, and post-war outcomes. This essay

examines the differences between the evacuation and exile experiences of the Niños

de Rusia and the Guernica Children, specifically exploring how their mirroring

documentaries navigate the tension between individuality and collectivity in

constructing memory and historical narratives. To analyse this tension, this essay will

use work by Graham Smith (2015) to focus on the interplay between individual and

collective remembering. His research analyses oral history in group settings and how

group memory is shaped through social interactions and communication, drawing on

transactive memory to highlight how shared memories can impact the remembering

of events. While a more comprehensive study could explore additional complexities,

these aspects fall outside the scope of this essay.

The evacuation of children during the Spanish Civil War reflected contrasting political

realities. For instance, not all children were welcomed; their refuge was dependent

on their political orientations. For example, the Basque government prioritised

evacuation of children from socialist or communists’ families to “neutral countries” or

those that were in favour of the Republican ideals (Graham, 2013). The way these

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