A Catalonian, she was believed to have been among the last Spanish survivors of the Holocaust.
By Phil Davison April 26 at 5:08 PM To the end of her 103 years, the Catalonian anti-fascist activist Neus Català, believed to have been one the last Spanish survivors of the Holocaust, was proud that, in her words, “I never once wept or got on my knees in front of a Nazi.”
Fleeing Spain for neighboring France in 1939, she joined the French resistance when Hitler’s forces invaded in May 1940. Working with her new husband, Albert Roger, a Frenchman, she carried weapons, falsified documents or messages under a headscarf or under a basket of vegetables on her bicycle, charming her way through Nazi checkpoints.
Ms. Català persuaded her fellow female workers to boycott or disrupt weapons production, and they became known by their Nazi guards as “the Lazy Kommando.” When Ms. Català was freed around the same time, she was critically ill. “We were just skulls with eyes,” she told the trade union magazine. “I was a bag of bones.” Yet she survived for almost 75 more years, dying April 13 in a nursing home in the Spanish village of Els Guiamets, her daughter Margarita Català announced. She did not provide a specific medical cause.
She joined a Catalonian communist youth group in the 1930s and, after the Spanish Civil War erupted, moved to the Catalan capital, Barcelona, to study and qualify as a nurse in 1937. Amid the bloodshed, she found herself running an orphanage for children of war victims.
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