5 October 2014

Cimetière parisien de Thiais, Val-de-Marne (94), Île-de-France #8: Francisco Boix-Campo


'FRANCISCO BOIX-CAMPO
DÉPORTÉ EN 1941, À L'ÂGE DE 21 ANS,
AU CAMP DE CONCENTRATION DE MAUTHAUSEN.
DÉCÉDÉ LE 7.7.1951
DES SUITES DE SA DÉPORTATION.
ANIMÉ D'UN GRAND COURAGE, IL SUBTILISA
AUX S.S. DES DOCUMENTS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES
ACCABLANTS POUR LES NAZIS QUI IMPOSÈRENT
LE RÉGIME CONCENTRATIONNAIRE.

L'AMICALE DES DÉPORTÉS DE MAUTHAUSEN'

'FRANCISCO BOIX-CAMPO
DEPORTED IN 1941, AT THE AGE OF 21,
TO MAUTHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP.
DIED 7.7.1951
DUE TO COMPLICATIONS RELATING TO HIS DEPORTATION.
MOTIVATED BY HUGE COURAGE, HE HID
FROM THE S.S. PHOTOGRAPHIC DOCUMENTS
DAMNING FOR THE NAZIS WHO IMPOSED
THE CONCENTRATIONARY RÉGIME.

THE ASSOCIATION OF MAUTHAUSEN DEPORTEES'

Boix, as he is usually known, was a photographer and a Spanish republican exiled in France in 1939. In Mauthausen he was assigned to the photographic department. In 1946 he was a witness at the Nuremberg trails, where he provided photographic evidence of Nazi atrocities as well as the involvement of high-ranking former Nazi officials in Mauthausen concentration camp.

He later worked as a reporter for such publications as Ce soir, L'Humanité, and Regards.

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