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The book Winnipeg, Testimonies of an Exile was presented recently at the Lope de Vega Theater in Santiago, Chile at an event organized by the Basque club Colectividad Vasca de Chile.  The author, Julio Galvez Barraza, and his editor, Jaime Ferrer Mir, gave an emotional and interesting talk on the voyage of the ship that brought 2,000 exiles from the Spanish Civil War to Chile in 1939.

Santiago, Chile.   With a large audience present in Santiago, Chile the book Winnipeg, Testimonies of an Exile by writer and researcher, Julio Galvez Barraza, specialist in the Republican exile in Chile was presented in the Chilean capital.  The book analyzes the arrival of republican refugees, including some Basques, to the port in Valparaiso in 1939, through historic documentation, letters, archives and mainly through testimonies of survivors of those who arrived on the Winnipeg.

The event was organized by the Basque Collectivity in Chile and took place at the Lope de Vega Theater in the Spanish Stadium of Las Condes, in Santiago.  During the presentation, Julio Galvez Barraza and editor Jaime Ferrer Mir gave an interesting talk about the journey of the merchant ship to Chile, with more than 2,000 immigrants.  After the long crossing, the ship arrived to port in Valpariaso on September 3, 1939.

The presentation was also attended by four people who made the voyage and who gave their emotional testimonies of the experience.  Afterwards a group of dantzaris did a Basque dance performance on stage.