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Haccourt (Belgium), March 7 (EFE), (Camera: Leo Rodríguez).- Amelia Badillo, 92, lives in Haccourt, a Belgian town a few kilometres from the Dutch border. Until she was 8 years old she lived in Castro Urdiales, in Spain but when the Spanish civil war broke out in 1936 she was sent to Belgium with an adoptive family.FOOTAGE AND SOUNDBITES OF AMELIA BADILLO:"My father, Antonio, was a revolutionary, he supported the Spanish Republic and, fortunately, my mother was at home when my father passed away. If not, Franco would have killed him. My mother was then alone with six children and the youngest one was still a baby.""The family who adopted me was a couple without kids and they were very happy to have me."
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