The City of Dénia will host this afternoon, at 18: 00 hours, an emotional tribute to dianenses victims of Nazi concentration camps. An act that is part of the acts of the project Construint Memòria of the Generalitat Valenciana.
The consellera of Justice, Public Administration, Democratic Reforms and Public Liberties, Gabriela Bravo, will deliver a detail-tribute to the relatives of Asensio Vives Roselló, Jaime Crespo Vengut, Vicente Pérez Bolufer and José Ramis Grimalt, the dianenses who were interned in the camps of Nazi concentration during the Second World War.
The general director of Democratic Reforms and Access to Justice, José García Añón, and the mayor of Dénia, will also participate in the act. Vicent Grimalt.
His stories
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.
