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Benifallet honors 4 deported residents with memory cobblestones

The municipality expands the Stolpersteine project with a tribute to residents deported to Nazi camps, attended by the Minister of Justice.

Generic image of a Stolperstein in a cobblestone street with warm light.
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Generic image of a Stolperstein in a cobblestone street with warm light.

The municipality of Benifallet has expanded the Stolpersteine project by installing three cobblestones and a commemorative plaque to remember four residents deported to Nazi concentration camps.

The ceremony, held this Saturday midday, was presided over by the Minister of Justice and Democratic Quality, Ramon Espadaler, and the mayor, Maria Mercè Pedret, along with relatives of the victims and representatives of memorialist entities.
Minister Espadaler highlighted the importance of recovering these names and stories erased by Nazi horror, stating that "behind every stolperstein lies a truncated personal and family history." He emphasized that these are not statistics, but people, and stressed the need to explain this to younger generations to understand the value of democracy.
The cobblestones honor Joaquín Cid Pasanau (born 1899), a CNT militant and leader of the Syndicalist Party, who fought on the Aragon Front and endured various internment and deportation camps in France and Germany before continuing his anti-fascist struggle. Antonio Povill Trilla (born 1913), exiled in 1939, passed through French camps and was deported to Mauthausen, where he received number 4,315, being liberated in 1945. Tomás Salaet Artiola (born 1914) participated in the war with the Durruti Column, was interned at Vernet camp, and deported to Mauthausen, returning to Catalonia in 1948. Finally, Francisco Margalef Treig (born 1917) was deported to Mauthausen and murdered in the Gusen subcamp in 1942; in his case, a commemorative plaque was placed as he already has a cobblestone in another municipality.

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