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Dénia will pay tribute to the four Republican dianenses sent to Nazi death camps

17 2018 April - 17: 02

Asensio Vives Roselló, Jaime Crespo Vengut, José Ramis Grimalt and Vicente Pérez Bolufer, all neighbors of Dénia, were defenders of the republican regime. At the end of the Spanish Civil War, fleeing from a more than likely Francoist repression, they marched to France.

Where they sought refuge and a new opportunity, they found concentration camps, such as Barcalès, Argelès-sur-Mer or Herault, where they barely survived. But the worst was yet to come. In 1940, after the Nazi occupation of France during World War II, the four men were deported to the concentration camps of Mauthausen and Gusen, along with many others.

Despite the fact that in the letters they sent to their relatives in Dénia, they tried to camouflage the real hardships they lived there, three of them died during their internment in the extermination camp. Asensio Vives Roselló, with 45 years and after seven months of penalties; Jaime Crespo Vengut, with 50 years and after four months in the field; and José Ramis Grimalt, who died at the 47 years after resisting two years and five months.

Vicente Pérez Bolufer was the only survivor, released in 1945 with 31 years of age, after four years and one month of internment. But the misfortune happened to him when returning to France, where he perished in a tragic accident in the year 1956. Even today, his daughter Teresa remembers with emotion the encounter on the border with her father, whom she barely knew, because she left Spain when she was a baby and they met again when she had 11 years.

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Precisely the excitement and the memory of the relatives of these four dianenses has led the Dénia City Council to join the tribute acts together with the Municipal Arxiu and the Amical de Mauthausen association of País Valencià.

Thus, on the occasion of the 80 anniversary of the Civil War and following the guidelines of the Law of democratic memory and for the coexistence of the Valencian Community, the last weekend of April, the days 27 and 29, a program of events has been organized in memory and tribute to the dianenses victims of Nazism.

El Friday April 27 will be inaugurated in the House of Culture of Dénia, at 19: 30 hours, the photographic exhibition Auschwitz-Birkenau. Silence, pain i mort, by Juan José Todolí, which can be visited until the 11 in May. At 20 hours, in the auditorium of the House of Culture, the delegate of the Amical de Mauthausen from País Valencià, Adrián Blas Mínguez, will offer the conference entitled From the Montgó to Mauthausen and Gusen, four dianenses in the horror of the Nazi camps. Mínguez will offer that same morning a talk on the subject to the students of the IES Number 3, which along with that of the other institutes of the city, have been working on this historical episode.

And the Sunday April 29, at 12 at noon, there will be an act of homage in the municipal cemetery of Dénia in which a plaque will be unveiled in memory of the four dianenses victims of Nazism, located next to the one that pays homage to the Republicans shot in 1939, end of the Civil War. The musician and singer Jaume Ginestar will put music to this act performing a piece of music, the vocal theme 5 by Pego and the poem Tragèdia of a rose by María Ibars. The mayor will intervene, Vicent GrimaltThe councilman of Culture, Rafa Carrió, and some relatives of the honorees.

In the presentation of the tribute acts, together with the local authorities, Bernat Cardona, nephew of Jaime Crespo Vengut; Josep Antoni Ahuir, great-grandson of the brother of Asensio Vives Roselló; Mari Llum and Joan Ramon Vives Fornés, grandchildren of Asensio Vives; and Teresa Pérez Guardiola, daughter of Vicente Pérez Bolufer.

Comments
  1. Salvador says:

    The death of these dianenses and of many others (not republicans) to which public resources are not dedicated in their memory is painful.

  2. Ramonet says:

    The left always removing the shit ..
    The republic was proclaimed after a fraudulent election and the assassination of the conservative leader Calvo Sotelo by the republican Guard of the PSOE.
    The elections are already emerging and have to cover the mismanagement and corruption of the PSV and compromis .. But the story is what it is and on the Republican side there were many assassins thieves and coup plotters.


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