The dianenses interned in Nazi concentration camps will be remembered forever thanks to a plaque installed in the cemetery

The cemetery of Denia shines, since last Sunday, 29 of April, a commemorative plaque in tribute to the four dianenses republicans that were sent to Nazi concentration camps. Asensio Vives Roselló, Jaime Crespo Vengut, José Ramis Grimalt and Vicente Pérez Bolufer fled to France after the Civil War, fleeing more than likely Francoist repression.

But what promised to be a salvation became their nightmare: 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 so 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.

Now, his stories and his memory will live forever in the memory of the dianenses thanks to the installation of this commemorative plaque, installed next to the one that remembers the republicans shot on the cemetery wall.

The event counted on the interventions of the Mayor of Dénia, Vicent Grimalt; The councilman of Culture, Rafa Carrió, and relatives of the honorees. In addition, dianense singer Jaume Ginestar put music and voice to the tribute interpreting a poem by María Ibars and singing Els de Pego.