#OtD 28 Mar 1939 the Stanbrook ship left Alicante carrying 3500 refugees fleeing Franco's victory in the Civil War. It went to North African French colonies, where many of the refugees were interned in camps and used as forced labour in the Sahara desert https://t.co/rNZDZqJ9lu https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10034/%22stanbrook%22-ship-departed-from-alicante?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon