In 2018, this sculpture was inaugurated to recover the memory of those deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where most of the Spanish deportees were confined, and where almost five thousand died. Its author, Alfredo Moral, sought to represent the rupture of the lives of young people who left their families and friends, convinced that the only possible response was to defend freedom and progress against fascism.

The aim is to keep the memory of the victims alive, to warn against fascism, and to urge democratic societies to take the necessary measures to ensure that the Nazi barbarism never returns.

In Xàtiva, eight citizens were deported. Six of them died in the extermination camps, while two were liberated in 1945; their names are: Ricardo Cháfer Daroca (April 22, 1945 †), Vicente Colomer Vila (October 29, 1941 †), José Aurelio Francés Vidal (July 30, 1942 †), Antonio Martínez Ballester (survivor), Ramon Amat Terol (December 20, 1941 †), Rafael Perelló Tormo (December 7, 1941 †), Alberto Pagán Gil (October 19, 1942 †), and José Martínez Ramon (survivor).

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MONUMENT TO THE PEOPLE DEPORTED TO MAUTHAUSEN

Plaza Arzobispo Mayoral