Catalan Luxembourg Centre invites you to the celebration of the centenary of the Neus Catala's birth will take place on 18 in June 19.15 al nostre local (88, Rue de la Semois; Luxembourg Ville). The event will consist of the screening of the documentary Neus Catalan: The last survivor, that lasts 20 minutes, followed by the conference "Women in concentration camps" by the Amical of Ravensbrück.
Catalan Neus graduated in Nursing 1937 and at the beginning of the Civil War he moved to Barcelona. L’any 1939 crossed the French border 180 Children, Orphans of the colony Las Acacias Premia de Dalt, where were the children called Negrin, who were in charge. Va col·laborar juntament amb el seu marit, Roger Albert Occitan, Resistance activities, centralizing in his house the reception and transmission of messages, weapons and documents, and hosting political refugees. It was denounced by an apothecary of Sarlat in the Nazi authorities, that stopped, with her husband, he 1943. Detained and mistreated in Limoges, l’any 1944 was deported to Ravensbrück, where she was forced to work in the arms industry. After his release, returned to France where it would continue its clandestine struggle against Franco. He lived in Sarcelles, near Paris, and president of the Amical Ravensbrück. He continues his membership of the Party of Communists of Catalonia (PCC), United Left Alternative (EUiA) and the Foundation Pere Ardiaca, which is a member of honor.
