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September 1936
Hendaye
Keystone View Company

"THOUSANDS FLEE TO SAFETY FROM BLAZING IRUN. -- With the few belongings they managed to take with them, strewn on the HENDAYE PLAGE, FRANCE these refugees from IRUN watch the town blazing with its shroud of smoke and gun fire. The kiddies in the foreground are blissfully ignorant of the fact that they are homeless and destitute and spend the time making sand castles on the safe French beach, last night. "