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The City Council pays tribute to Juan Aznar, caravaqueño survivor of the Mauthausen concentration camp on World War II this Thursday (03/07/2018)

The public act will take place at 8:00 p.m., in the Plenary Hall of the Consistory

The Association of Historical Memory of Caravaca celebrates the exhibition 'The photographer of horror.

The story of Francisco Boix and the stolen photos of the SS of Mauthausen '

The City of Caravaca de la Cruz pays tribute this Thursday, July 5, to the caravaqueño Juan Aznar García, Murcia's only survivor of the people who were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II.

The public ceremony will take place at 8:00 p.m., in the Hall of the Consistory Plenary, as announced by the mayor, José Moreno, accompanied by the councilor of Izquierda Unida-Ganar Caravaca, Juani Marín.

"Juan has traveled from his home in France to Caravaca de la Cruz to attend this justified recognition that gives his people for having defended the values ​​of freedom and democracy," said the mayor, who added that this act will be held on Same day in which the honoree celebrates one hundred years.

The initiative arises from the motion presented by Izquierda Unida-Ganar Caravaca and unanimously approved by the political groups in May 2016. The City Council has already recognized the caravaqueños imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camps at the Casa de la Cultura and placed a plaque in his memory in the garden next to the Plaza del Templete, but on that occasion it was not possible to count on the presence of Juan Aznar.

"We are very happy and satisfied that he can personally receive the affection of his neighbors and contribute to the fulfillment of his desire to never forget the horror they experienced or to repeat what happened", said the mayor Juani Marín.

Juan Aznar was born on July 5, 1918, in the hamlet of Barranda.

The caravaqueño deportee was part of the republican army during the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 he was exiled to France where he was held in several internment camps (Bacarès and Saint-Cyprien).

The beginning of World War II caused that Juan was captured by the Nazi forces and sent to a camp of prisoners, to finally be deported to the concentration camp of Mauthausen the 13 of December of 1940, with number 4,597.

He was released by the American army in 1945, after surviving five years of torture and forced labor during his captivity.

Exhibition 'The photographer of horror'

In a complementary way to the tribute that Juan Aznar will receive this Thursday, the Association of Historical Memory of Caravaca and the Artistic Circle 1911 Hotel Boutique organize the exhibition 'The photographer of the horror.

The story of Francisco Boix and the stolen photos of the Mauthausen SS.

The exhibition opens this Friday, July 6, at 8:00 pm, and will open to the general public on Saturday, July 7.

You will stay at the Boutique Hotel, located in Calle Mayor, number 5, in front of the parish of El Salvador, until July 15, with an opening time from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.

The sample has its origin in the homonymous book of the historian Benito Bermejo, specialized in the Spaniards deported to the Nazi camps.

Francisco Boix was one of the 7,200 Spanish republicans deported to the Nazi camp at Mauthausen, where he worked in the photo lab.

This allowed him to safeguard an important volume of photographs taken by the SS, to which he added those made by himself after the liberation of the camp, in 1945. His testimony was essential to document the accusation in the Nuremberg Process.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz

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