Ángel Víctor Torres, who participated in the event together with the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, Óscar Puente, and the vice-president of Amical Mauthausen, Concha Díaz, highlighted that “those deported and killed in the Nazi camps, together with the Spaniards who fought in the resistance, in the regular French forces and in the guerrilla troops against Nazism and fascism contributed with their sacrifice and their own lives to forge the Democratic Memory of Europe”.
The Council of Ministers of April 29, 2019 agreed to establish May 5 as the day of tribute to the Spanish and Spanish deported and deceased in Mauthausen and other camps, and to all the victims of Nazism in Spain. In fulfillment of this mandate, this event was held today before the monolith erected in the garden of the New Ministries (Madrid), where the actor and writer Carlos Olalla has read the Oath of Mauthausen.
The event, which was also attended by the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, Fernando Martínez, the prosecutor of the Human Rights and Democratic Memory Chamber, Dolores Delgado, and various European ambassadors, claimed the right of citizens to “live in peace”, as well as the need to recover the Democratic Memory.