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He is incumbent of the Jon Bilbao Chair at the William A. Douglass Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno and researcher at the University of Deusto. Pedro Oiarzabal will give a talk tomorrow in Reno entitled, “The Fighting Basques: Basques of Nevada in WWII.”  He also participated last Friday in the Oral History Association Annual Conference held in Long Beach, CA with a presentation on the “Ondare Bizia” project on Basque returning migration.

Reno, NV, USA.   Pedro J. Oiarzabal will present a talk tomorrow, October 19th entitled “The Fighting Basques Project: Basques of Nevada in WW2" in the University of Nvada, Reno, Center for Basque Studies’ conference room.  The presentation will discuss work done by military historian, Guillermo Tabernilla, member of the Sancho de Beurko Association, on the Basque participation in the US armed forces during World War II. An article about it was published in the last issue of the Saibigain magazine (see http://www.fightingbasques.net/en-us/Saibigain-Magazine).

Request for collaboration to the Basque community

Currently, 213 people have been identified as being of Basque origin in the state of Nevada among the participants in World War II.  Being an open project, the cooperation of the US Basque community is also vital to identify veterans of WWII, as well as contribute materials that would help illustrate the biographies that have already been gathered.  In order to help, please email: sanchobeurko@gmail.com.

Oiarzabal, director of the Memoria Bizia, project, also presented “Ondare Bizia: The Return of Basque Migrants and Exiles Stories to the Homeland” (see www.ondarebizia.deusto.es) at the Annual Conference of the Oral History Association in the US, that took place in Long Beach, CA, October 12-16.