New Català i Pallejà

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Neus Català i Pallejà (born on October 6, 1915 in Els Guiamets , Tarragona province ; died on April 13, 2019 there ) was a member of the Partido Socialista Unificado de Cataluña (PSUC for short) during the Spanish Civil War and the last Spanish survivor of the concentration camp Ravensbrück .

Life

Neus Català came from a farming family in the Comarca Priorat . She was a member of the communist youth movement. In 1937 she completed her training as a nurse , moved to Barcelona and worked in an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War. In 1939 she crossed the French border with 180 orphans from Premià de Dalt , the children of Negrin .

Together with her husband Albert Roger, she took part in activities of the French resistance , organized intelligence services , arms deliveries and the documentation of Nazi crimes. She also took care of shelter for political refugees. She was denounced by a pharmacist from Sarlat-la-Canéda , arrested together with her husband in 1943, imprisoned and mistreated in Limoges , deported to Ravensbrück in February 1944 and then to Holleischen , subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp . There she had to do forced labor in the armaments industry and was part of the Comando de las gandulas , a group of women who boycotted the manufacture of ammunition, produced around 10 million damaged loads and repeatedly brought the ammunition factory to a standstill through sabotage. Her first husband was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp .

Neus Català was able to survive the Nazi regime, returned to France, remarried and continued her resistance against the Franco regime . She lived in Sarcelles near Paris and was chairwoman of the Association of Victims of the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp. She was a member of the Partit dels i les Comunistes de Catalunya (PCC), the Esquerra Unida i Alternativa (EUiA) and an honorary member of the Fundació Pere Ardiaca .

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Awards, honors

Quote

"She is a strong and committed woman, an anti-fascist fighter, survivor of the Nazi death camps and a role model for all women who fought in the Spanish Civil War and World War II."

- Catalunya dedica el 2015 a Neus Català, l'ùltima supervivent de Ravensbrück

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New Català, un testimoni de lluita contra l'oblit. (No longer available online.) In: Amical Ravensbrück. Formerly in the original ; accessed on April 14, 2019 (Spanish).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.amicalravensbruck.org Neus Català fa 100 anys. In: Televisió de Catalunya . October 6, 2015, accessed April 30, 2018 (Spanish).
  2. ^ A b Jordi Creus: Dones contra Franco. Ara Llibres, Barcelona, ​​2007.
  3. ↑ Neus Català, fighter against fascism in Spain and France, dies at 103. April 26, 2019, accessed on April 27, 2019 (English).
  4. ↑ Agència Catalana de Notícies, Falset, June 14, 2015.
    Neus Català. In: Història UGT. February 25, 2013, Retrieved April 14, 2019 (Catalan).
  5. ^ Conseil de Paris.
personal data
SURNAME Català i Pallejà, Neus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES El Quico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish communist and resistance fighter against National Socialism, last survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Els Guiamets
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 2019
Place of death Els Guiamets