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Lleida Students Share Their Experience Against Holocaust Oblivion

High school students from Lleida recount their emotional journey to the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps.

Students participating in a historical memory event about the Holocaust in the city of Lleida, featuring a commemorative plaque.
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Students participating in a historical memory event about the Holocaust in the city of Lleida, featuring a commemorative plaque.

Yesterday, several students from Lleida shared their experiences from the trip to the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps at the Alfred Perenya Hall, an initiative promoted by the Lleida City Council's Democratic Memory office.

The event took place at the Sala Alfred Perenya in Lleida as part of the De Lleida a Mauthausen 2025 initiative. The participating students belong to the Buchenwald-Mauthausen project and recounted their experience from the trip carried out last May, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps.
The students came from various educational centers in the region, including the institutes La Caparrella, Guindàvols, Josep Lladonosa, Manuel de Montsuar, Màrius Torres, the Col·legi El Carme, the Institut d’Almenar, and the IE Oliana. This project is promoted by the Democratic Memory office of the Lleida City Council with the collaboration of Amical de Mauthausen and the DEMD Working Group of the Department of Education.

The objective is to keep historical memory alive and transmit it to the new generations.

In addition to this event, the Paeria (City Council) will commemorate tomorrow the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity with a solemn ceremony in front of the FITA sculpture, in Cappont. During this event, the new Stolpersteine paving stones will be presented, which are scheduled to be placed in the city on April 18.
The memory activities will continue next Monday with the participation of nearly 800 students from the Lleida regions at the Teatre de la Llotja. Student work on deportees from Lleida will be presented there, and a commemorative mural, created by the artist Miquel Wert, will be inaugurated under the Príncep de Viana bridge. The Minister of Justice, Ramon Espadaler, and MEP Jaume Asens are expected to attend.

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