The Generalitat of Catalunya declared October 15 National Day of Remembrance for the victims of Franco
The Consell approved Executiu declare the October 15 National Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Civil War and the Franco regime. On 15 October this year coincides with the 75th anniversary of the execution of the president of the Generalitat, Lluís Companys, the only democratically elected president of Western Europe executed by fascism.
Government agreement fulfills the Law 13/2007 of October 31, the Democratic Memorial, and especially its preamble, which speaks of the need to acknowledge all the victims and to the many resolutions of the Parliament of Catalonia in relation to the Civil War and the subsequent Franco dictatorship. The agreement also refers to "the existence of plurality of memories, to be recognized no hard feelings and constructively, and various initiatives have been launched to clarify the truth and the moral and symbolic reparation of all victims and survivors. " The Democratic Memorial of the Generalitat, through its director Jordi Palou Loverdos, has us already contacted various organizations memorialists to narrow your participation, and note that the memorial includes: "... both individual victims , collective and institutional living in Catalunya and victims everywhere who suffered individually and collectively on their way through Catalunya (IDPs from other parts of Spain welcomed in Catalunya, International Brigades, exiles from diverse backgrounds, immigrants, etc.) .
In that decision it has also been taken into account the numerous resolutions and reports of the various agencies of the United Nations (UN), and in particular the report dated July 22, 2014 the special rapporteur of the UN on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-repetition, after his visit to Catalonia in January 2014.
The Generalitat de Catalunya, among other figures of culture, medicine, education, ethnology, etc., honors in this year of 2015 the leader of ERC, and Chairman of the Republican Generalitat, Lluís Companys, who succeeded also Francesc Macia Republican in 1933. Companys was shot dead by Franco on 15 October 1940. Moreover, the centenary of the birth of the anti-fascist activist also held Neus Català, born on October 7, 1915 in Guiamets, Province Tarragona. Neus Català was a member of the youth of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) during the Civil War, and today maintains its membership in the Party of Communists of Catalonia (PCC), which is integrated in the coalition Esquerra Unida i Alternativa ( EUiA).
Neus Català was a nurse and, in 1939, crossed the border 180 orphaned children who were in charge in Cologne Negrin Premia de Dalt (Barcelona). Back in France, he went on to join the ranks of the Resistance, with her husband in information and liaison work, at home centralizing weapons and documentation. It was not until the betrayal of a pharmacist in Sarlat (Dordogne, Aquitaine region), who was arrested together with her husband, by the Gestapo; The year was 1943. In Limoges prison was tortured in interrogation and in the train station of this city, saw her husband for the last time, who was deported and died. She was in transit in the field of Compiègne and then join together with a thousand other women, the infamous "Convoy of 27,000" by the number assigned to them upon arrival at camp Ravensbrüc. Neus Català was one of the few survivors of that Nazi camp.