2. Accdg. to records compiled by Franco’s military headquarters in 1938,653
prisoners from 41 countries were held in an abandoned monastery in San Pedro
de Cardena, 6.8 kilometres outside of Burgos.
• 76 Volunteers from the United States
were imprisoned at San Pedro
• 59 were captured at Gandesa, including
Carl Geiser, Bob Steck, Claude Pringle,
Morris Tobman, Hy Wallach, Max Parker
• 28 were captured at Belchite including
Leon Tenor, Sidney Rosenblatt, Henry
Giler
• The restored monastery is visited today
as a shrine to the hero El Cid
• The area where the Lincolns were
imprisoned, top left corner

3. The Roots of Memory
“The 20 benchmark cities reflect the diversity of backgrounds and culture of the members of the IB.
The work is intended as a visual metaphor of the transcendence of essential human values and of the
reclamation of historical memory, which is now more important than ever.” - Susana Rioseras

4. The inscription reads: The people of Burgos thank the International Brigades who
gave their lives for the Republic, antifascism, and freedom 1936 - 2011

5. In an update in January 2012, Susanna reported that the current civil and ecclesiastical institutions are hindering
the placement of any symbol of resistance in an effort to conceal the evidence of the long history of repression
by the Franco regime. The authorities in Burgos also continue to impede the exhumation of the infinite number
of mass graves in the region, which suffered some of the harshest treatment by the regime. Both the RMH and
the Homage Committee have resubmitted applications for three alternate sites on the monastery grounds.

6. The presenters spoke about
The San Pedro Institute of Higher Learning
“No other activity we engaged in was as important as these classes in resisting the
dehumanizing and degrading atmosphere of the concentration camp.”
-Carl Geiser, from The Prisoners of the Good Fight

7. Surviving fragment of The Jaily News, the underground paper at San Pedro, which serves as
inspiration for the blogger Nacho Garcia. “This blog was born with the intention of denouncing
the things that happened in the concentration camp of San Pedro de Cardena, which have been
totally hidden by past and present political authorities…The paper counterbalanced the Burgos
pro fascist local paper, one of the few reading materials permitted in the camp.”

8. Italian prisoners captured by the Republic
Marshal Goring, Commander of the Luftwaffe, directed Franco to set up an exchange for fascist
prisoners captured by the Republic.

9. Laying a wreath on the graves inside the monastery at San Pedro de Cardena

10. The International Brigades Commemoration Committee of Burgos
holds a luncheon in honor of the International Brigade Prisoners

11. The exhibition contains photos, documents and biographies related to the
International Brigade prisoners at San Pedro de Cardena

12. Telegram identifying prisoner suspected of being German and ordering his solitary confinement. Also shown in the
exhibit, an agreement between Himmler, head of the gestapo, and Martinez Anido, Minister of Public order, which gave
carte blanche to extradition proceedings of German prisoners.

13. Document from an exhibiton panel regarding the transfer of Red Cross postal
privileges from departing prisoner Hy Wallach to Yugoslav Radivoy Nicolic

14. Members of the Families of the Disappeared and Assassinated of Burgos, one of 5
RMHC organizations in the Burgos region