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Francisco Boix: The Mauthausen Prisoner Who Smuggled Photos of Nazi Crimes
Francisco Boix, a Spanish Republican prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp, risked his life to preserve photographic evidence of Nazi crimes during the Holocaust.
Francisco Boix, a young Spanish Republican and former soldier in the Spanish Civil War, became during the Second World War one of the most important photographic witnesses to Nazi crimes during the Holocaust. Born in Barcelona in 1920, he fled to France after the fall of the Spanish Republic. When Nazi Germany invaded France, Boix was captured and deported in 1941 to the Mauthausen concentration camp, where over 7,000…
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