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  Onteniente, a Clinic of the Socialist Workers' International

  On May 1, 1937, a group of Jewish volunteer nurses of Antwerp and Brussels proudly pose for a group portrait. They have arrived at Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona and will travel the next day to Onteniente, a small town near Valencia. On the initiative of the Socialist Workers' International and the International Federation of Trade Unions, a clinic was established in Onteniente. The Belgian Workers' Party played a crucial role in the entire project. In the photo, we can see the three Luftig sisters: Golda sitting in the middle, Feigla to her right in the white dress, and next to her, Rachel. At the bottom right sits Genia Gross. All of them had their husbands or partners in the International Brigades.
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  Visiting the Girlfriends

  Summer of 1937 in a photo studio in Onteniente. Alter Szerman, Kuba Bachrach, Menke Bober, and Maks Stark (from left to right) are visiting their girlfriends who work in the hospital: (from left to right) Adela and Anna Korn and Genia Gross. Both Szerman and Bober attended the officers’ school in Pozorrubio. Bachrach is a physician who studied at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and is the head of the Brigades' clinic in Murcia.
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  Nurses in Onteniente

  Some of the nurses in Onteniente, summer 1938. We recognize Golda and Rachel Luftig surrounded by several Dutch nurses.
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  Facade of the Military Hospital in Onteniente

  The facade of the Franciscan monastery in Onteniente, where the military hospital was set up during the Civil War.
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  Dov with Nurses

  October 1937: Bernard ‘Dov’ Lieberman visits the Jewish nurses in Onteniente. Lieberman is a leading figure among the Jewish communists in Antwerp, founder of the Jewish Workers' Sports Club JASK, and journalist of the Yiddish party newspaper Naie Presse (The New Press), which is published in Paris. "The Jewish labour movement from Belgium can be proud that it has sent its daughters," he wrote in an article after his visit.