The exhibition "Beyond Mauthausen" is open at Okendo Kultur Etxea

On 5 May 1945, one of Francesc Boix's colleagues photographed him, camera around his neck, with an armband identifying him as a reporter. Just a few hours earlier, the Nazi concentration camp at Mauthausen, where Boix was deported, had been liberated by US forces. That image froze in time a passion and profession which had begun in Barcelona, as a very young man, and which he was to maintain up until his death in Paris, in 1951.

This selection from his life as a photographer is our way of paying tribute to Francesc Boix and the Republican men and women who followed the paths of war: in Spain (1936-1939) and in Europe (1939-1945). Men and women who lost their lives and were stripped of their dignity in all the enslavement and extermination camps of Germany's Third Reich, and who, in the case of the survivors, were forced into definitive exile or shameful treatment by Franco's dictatorial regime.

Organizers: Amical de Mauthausen, Museu d'Història de Catalunya and Donostia Kultura

Guided tours

• 9 April (19:00)
• 14 May (19:00)

Both will be made by Juan Francisco Murillo, delegate of the Amical of Euskadi, Navarra and La Rioja (Spanish)

Inscription: Okendo Kultur Etxea  (943 290 672 / [email protected])

Timetable

• From Monday to Friday: 10:00 – 14:00 / 16:00 – 20:30
• Saturdays and bridges: 10:00 – 14:00 / 16:30 – 20:00