Manuel Amat Pérez 1908 - 1942

Born 8.8.1908 in Elda
Died 21.1.1942 in Gusen

Biography

He was born in Elda (Alicante) Spain, on 8 August 1908. He was the youngest of six brothers.

At the beginning of the Spanish Civil War he fought in the Republican faction. As part of the Anarchist Union he took part in "Columna Durruti" and participated in the battle of Belchite and later in “Batalla del Ebro”.

When the war was about to finish he entered in France as a refugee. There he stayed in different Faulquemont camps. After the agreement between the French Government and General Franco, about the situation of Spanish refugees there were possibilities: to join the French Foreign Legion (to belong to the Foreign Workers) or to return to Spain, with the consequences that it supposed.

He decided to be part of the Groups of Foreign Workers. He was part of the 109th company of Foreign Workers and participated in the construction of the "Maginot Line".

After the null resistance of the French army against Nazi Germany he was captured in France by the German Army in June 1940, imprisoned in the Frontstalags of Belfort 140 and Vesoul 141.

He was transferred to Germany on 10 January 1941, subsequently to Mauthausen along with a convoy of 486 prisoners, of whom 261 died in the transfer that lasted only two days. He arrived at Mauthausen on 26 April 1941, receiving the registration number 4445.
Later he was transferred to the sub-camp of Gusen on 20 October 1941. He died in Gusen on 21 January 1942 as a result of heart failure.

We know nothing else about him, only that he is in our memory.

 

Manuel López Mónica, nephew

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