Route through the Republican offensive of November 1938, a walking tour that allows you to follow in the footsteps of the famous photographer when he documented the last attack of the Republican army in Catalonia.
The Hungarian Ernö Friedmann was almost 25 years old when he produced a splendid report on the Republican army's attack on Aitona and the Serrabrisa area. He was already a daring war photographer who, over the years, would establish himself as the best.
He met the German Greta Pohorylle, also a press photographer, with whom he became a romantic and professional partner until her death in the battle of Brunete in 1937, already better known as Gerda Taro.
They both invented the character of Robert Capa to sign their work, a name that Ernö kept until he died following French troops in Vietnam in 1954.
From November 7 to 22, 1938, the Republican army made a final war effort in Catalonia: an offensive that aimed to reach Fraga, place the front line in the Cinca, which had been in the Segre since April, or facilitate the withdrawal of the troops that had been fighting in the Ebro since the 2nd.
The surprise was total, crossing the river through Torres de Segre and Aitona, until establishing a front in 24 hours
of a bridge 4.5 km deep and 13 km long, which included the villages of Soses and Seròs.
The swift reaction of the Francoists halted the attack, and the Republicans began a tough phase of resistance and gradual retreat that culminated fifteen days later with their return to their starting positions.
On the 16th, the last of the "red" troops crossed the Ebro River after 115 days of intense fighting in the mountains near Gandesa. On December 23rd, the final attack on Catalonia by the "national" army began at the Seròs bridgehead.
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