{"id":659,"date":"2010-06-03T12:38:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/institutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2010-06-03T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T12:38:59","slug":"young-people-should-know-about-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2010\/06\/03\/young-people-should-know-about-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Young people should know about history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/05\/herminio-nino-de-la-guerra.jpg?w=328&amp;h=246\" alt=\"\" width=\"328\" height=\"246\" \/>CHILDREN\u2019s eyes record images that adults can\u2019t see, enriching our understanding of history. Herminio Mart\u00ednez was one of the young Basque children who in 1937 arrived in England after fleeing from the <a title=\"Guerra Civil Espa\u00f1ola\" href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guerra_Civil_Espa%C3%B1ola\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish civil war<\/a>. Their eyes saw everything. Now Herminio has recalled the story of his childhood, a story shared by many others who left Spain and came to Britain in search of a home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI live near Highgate cemetery. Do you know where it is? And do you know who is buried there?\u201d This was how Herminio gave me directions when we arranged our interview, and his cosy flat is indeed just a stone\u2019s throw from where <a title=\"karl Marx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biografiasyvidas.com\/biografia\/m\/marx_karl.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Karl Marx <\/a>lies.<\/p>\n<p>Herminio was one of the 4,000 children who on May 21 1937 boarded a ship to set sail for Southampton. \u201cIt was a terrible crossing. We were 4,000 children in a ship for 400 passengers. I was seven and my brother 11. We slept on the floor. We ran into a storm in the <a title=\"Bay of Biscay's map\" href=\"http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archivo:Bay_of_Biscay_map.png\" target=\"_blank\">Bay of Biscay<\/a> and that was a horrifying situation, rolling on the floor, throwing up, and many kids crying out to go back to Bilbao with their parents\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Herminio Mart\u00ednez\" href=\"http:\/\/londonspanish.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230; (LondonSpanish)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share_save?linkurl=http%3A%2F%2Finstitutocervanteslondon.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F21%2Fyoung-people-should-know-about-history%2F&amp;linkname=Young%20people%20should%20know%20about%20history\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/static.addtoany.com\/buttons\/share_save_256_24.png\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHILDREN\u2019s eyes record images that adults can\u2019t see, enriching our understanding of history. Herminio Mart\u00ednez was one of the young Basque children who in 1937 arrived in England after fleeing from the Spanish civil war. Their eyes saw everything. Now Herminio has recalled the story of his childhood, a story shared by many others who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,57],"tags":[107,122,135,153,163],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}