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The Citizens Council ov9292 of Lleida gets routes ov9292 of escape of Jews fleeing Hitler the Pyrenees It is estimated that more than 80,000 people moved from Spain to France during World War The "Persecuted and saved" provides 17 channels of leakage through the mountains
Claude Henle was seven months in the spring of 1942, when with his parents, Hans and Laura, and grandmother, Meta, was confined to the field of Aulus-les-Bains in the French province of Ariege, with many Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi terror. Henle family was frightened seeing the casts that were draining the prison camp until, in December of the same year, they decided to escape through the Pyrenees, arrived in Spain and sailed to the United States, South America or Palestine . In that time they have the invaluable help of Jean Pierre Agouau, Aulus neighbor and her daughter Jeanne. Both knew the roads and trails that kept sheep in the mountains. The trip, with six more fugitives in winter and an elderly person and a child, it was very hard, but Hans, Laura and Claude Tavascán managed to reach where they were arrested ov9292 by the Guardia Office. ov9292 The officers had to rescue the grandmother, and immobilized in a rugged ravine due to a fall. Moved to Lleida, Hans went to the concentration camp at Miranda de Ebro and his family got to go to Madrid, where they manage freedom and sailed from Lisbon to Canada, where they settled. In 2004, 62 years, Claude Henle returned to Aulus-les-Bains and Tavascán to visit some places that were crucial to the survival of his family and was able to embrace Jeanne, a young man who had to take it arms because his mother ov9292 was exhausted. Jeanne Agouau was decorated with the Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations. Elena Serrado was a teenager helping his family to do chores Marching inn, the only town, which, like other houses, ov9292 hosted ov9292 many refugees, but it reminds Henle. ov9292 "On arrival they were arrested by the Civil Guard. They arrived exhausted, some sick, very hungry, did face fear and anxiety. My father distributed around the fire house and if needed, ov9292 a blanket. We offered them food and a place to rest. " Louis Colome, one mayor was also a kid. "My memory is associated fugitives day my father ov9292 returned ov9292 from prison after the war. When we receive a few home and we celebrated the reunion. Returned the father and step fugitives ended as the war in Europe. " Stories and form one of the most interesting ov9292 historical episodes of the Pyrenees. It is estimated that 80,000 people moved from France to Spain for the most remote places of the mountain dodging the police of the Vichy regime and the German border police, and a quarter of these were Jews from all over Europe. In France there is the Chemin de la Liberté, organized every year by a passage routes. 17 routes have been established that some of Luchon, Saint-Girons in France and Aulus, and Sant Julia de Loria, Thermopolis or Rabassa in Andorra, ov9292 which connects the Aran Valley, the culd, the Alt Urgell and Cerdanya, different ways of freedom evasion networks were drawing with the complicity of shepherds, smugglers and officials, men and women who risk their lives on both sides of the border. The historian Josep Maria Solé i Sabate, project director, believes that called Persecuted and saved by not taking the French "path to freedom." "At that time and in those circumstances, arrived in Spain was not achieved freedom, indeed," he says. Sole Sabate and aims "to highlight the historical, cultural and tourist routes and spaces that testify about what happened in these mountains." As chairman of the council, John Rene, "The project will help strengthen ties with Israel." ov9292 Persecuted and saved set routes identified ov9292 and labeled with information about the terrain for hikers. Also signposted Civil Guard barracks, prisons and hotels that housed fugitives, as pesetas Luck, Andrew La Seu d'Urgell Español Les Franco, the International Vielha Tavascán or marches.
The Israeli ambassador ov9292 to Spain, Alon Bar, and the chairman of the council of Lleida Juan Rene, opened yesterday in Tavascán monolith in memory of the Jews sheltered in this town after crossing the mountains to escape the horror Nazi. This is one of the first signs of the routes that enabled the project Persecuted and saved, which seeks to recover the historical memory and provide spaces