The nine paving stones will go to five addresses where the people deported lived, and four more to the hermitage of Sant Sebastià, as there are four addresses that no longer exist or have not been identified. The tribute event will take place on October 4 and will begin with a procession that will leave from Passeig de Vilanova, 27, to the hermitage of Sant Sebastià:

• 10 am – Passeig de Vilanova, 27. (Cobblestones for Enric Miralles Rodés)
• 10.25 a.m. – Carrer de Joaquim Espalter, 27. (Paving for Joan Abella Bel)
• 10.45 am – Passeig de Vilafranca, 9. (Cobblestones for Jaume Daví Lluna)
• 11.05 a.m. – Carrer de Sant Francesc, 52-54. (Paving for Tomás Iglesias Iglesias)
• 11.25 am – Carrer de la Carreta, 25. (Cobblestones for Sebastià Arnan Domingo)
• 12:00 p.m. – Hermitage of San Sebastian, Avenida dels Balmins. (Cobblestones for José Egea García, José Antonio Egea Pujante, Manuel García Crespo and José López Martínez)

The Stolperstein dedicated to Jaime Sánchez González will be placed in the Plaça del Baró de Güell, in the town of Garraf, on October 10 at 1:30 p.m., while Manuel Calventós Sánchez’s stone will be in Badalona.

The Councilor for Culture, Albert Oliver-Rodés Sen, said that “with this event, Sitges reaffirms its commitment to democratic memory, the fight against forgetting and the public recognition of the victims of Nazism.”

The installation of these cobblestones is an initiative that is part of a European project promoted by the German artist Gunter Demnig, creator of the cobblestones which turn the streets into spaces of living memory and symbolically return the victims to their places of origin.

Exhibition at the Vidal Studio

The ten paving stones that will be installed in Sitges can be seen on the ground floor of the Estudi Vidal, from September 24 to October 3, from 10 am to 2 pm and from 5 pm to 8 pm, where a brief exhibition with the biographies of the eleven deportees from Sitges is also on display.

The Sitges City Council, through the Department of Culture, is organizing this tribute with the support of the Democratic Memorial of the Generalitat de Catalunya, and the collaboration of the Amical de Mauthausen and the Amical de Buchenwald, with the aim of dignifying the memory of the victims and reconnecting with their families and descendants.

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According to Sitges for Everyone’s research, details on the 11 victims are as follows:

• Sebastià Arnán Domingo — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: prominent unionist / POUM activist (long record of left-wing political activity); after exile he joined a Company of Foreign Workers and was arrested by the German authorities in 1940 and sent to the camps. museudelferrocarril.org

• Manuel García Crespo — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: captured while serving in one of the Companies of Foreign Workers (he was interned in a Stalag before transfer to Mauthausen). museudelferrocarril.org

• José Antonio Egea Pujante — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: Republican draftee / CNT member who fled to France after the Civil War, joined a Company of Foreign Workers and was later captured and sent to Mauthausen. (He survived and later worked with Amical de Mauthausen.) museudelferrocarril.org

• José López Martínez — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: one of the Spanish Republicans taken into German custody (Rotspanier); arrived at Mauthausen as part of early transports of Republican prisoners. museudelferrocarril.org

• Jaime Sánchez González — deported (Stalag →) Mauthausen.
  Reason: went into exile after the Civil War (he had been in the Assault Guard), was captured (likely as part of the Companies of Foreign Workers or related prisoner transfers) and transferred to Mauthausen. museudelferrocarril.org

• Jaume Daví Luna — deported to Buchenwald → Dora-Mittelbau (transferred late 1944).
  Reason: arrested in France as a member of the Resistance / Maquis; deported for political reasons (listed as “polit” in camp records). Probably died during the evacuation/death-marchs. museudelferrocarril.org

• Manuel Calventós Sánchez — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: quarry worker from the Garraf/Sitges area; researchers believe his political views (Republican / anti-Franco) and circumstances after exile led to his imprisonment and transfer from a Stalag to Mauthausen, where he later died. museudelferrocarril.org

• José Egea García — deported to Mauthausen.
  Reason: Republican who fled into France, was captured by the Wehrmacht in Belfort and interned in a Frontstalag / Stalag before being transported to Mauthausen (father of José Antonio Egea Pujante). museudelferrocarril.org

• Tomás Iglesias Iglesias — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: CNT member who went into exile and joined the Companies of Foreign Workers in France; arrested with other Republicans during the German advance and transferred to Mauthausen. museudelferrocarril.org

• Enrique (Enric) Miralles Rodés — deported to Mauthausen / Gusen.
  Reason: shoemaker and CNT member; after exile and service in Republican ranks he was captured in occupied France and sent via Stalags to Mauthausen and then Gusen. museudelferrocarril.org

• Joan Abella Bel — deported to Buchenwald → Flossenbürg (liberated near Prague).
  Reason: arrested in France for Resistance activity (the Gestapo rounded up Maquis/Resistance members); interned in Compiègne then deported to Buchenwald. He survived. museudelferrocarril.org