“Going to Spain was the best thing I ever did next to becoming a nurse. They were both about helping people.

“They were wonderful, hard-working people. Most of them were so poor they never had medical care before. They didn’t know what a doctor was. If you were not rich, you never saw a doctor or a nurse. I treated one girl with a shrapnel wound, and she was so thankful. She never dreamed that she would be cared for by a nurse or be treated in a hospital.”

Hilda Roberts
Hilda Roberts' passport photograph in 1936 and a photograph of her marching against the U.S. war in the Middle East, 2002.