In 1939, some 500,000 Spanish Republicans fled to France, where many, including this family, were interned in camps. When World War II broke out, these internment camps housed "enemy aliens," including German-Jewish refugees and Nazi political opponents. Rivesaltes, France, ca. 1941,

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