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The International Brigades: Simon Rutkowski and Joseph Epstein in a guerrilla training group (spring 1938).

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Photo, 1938 © Private collection, Duffau-Epstein (DR)

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Documents from the same period

*Der Frayhayts Kemfer* (*The Freedom Fighter*), a wall newspaper published by the Jews in the International Brigades. At the top is the motto of the Botwin Company: “For our freedom and yours.”

*L’Action française*, a royalist, nationalist, and anti-Semitic newspaper, dated June 7, 1936.

*Le Populaire*, a socialist daily, celebrates the success of the united response against the fascist leagues.

A 1936 CGT poster promoting the 40-hour workweek.

A banner reading “No pasaran” (“They shall not pass!”) on a street in Madrid in 1937.

A demonstration against non-intervention in Spain, Joseph Epstein (left) — August 1936.