Wolf, how true. My Library Science major professor had a great fondness for Spain and the Spanish people, especially the Basques. As a child of nine,he, his older brother and parents, Austrian Jews, fleeing the horror of Nazi concentration camps, managed to flee to France and were taken over the Pyrenees into Spain by Spanish Basques. They stayed in Spain until the end of the war, presumably repatriated as Sephardic Jews, and alive thanks to the kindness of the Spanish people, and of Francisco Franco.