Abstract
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) about 5000 children had to go into exile, finding in Belgium a temporary foster home. At the end of the war, most of them were repatriated and returned to their families or to welfare centers of the Francoist system. About a thousand did not return for different reasons. This article gathers the testimony of a ten of these Spanish-Belgian "children" and their families, turning to oral history and memory, to recover a part of the history of education and childhood. The trip, the host colonies or the social integration, relationships with the family, the school and the community are some of the topics analyzed in these life stories.
Keywords:
history of childhood; memory; oral history; Spanish Civil War; exile