Vinces Gené Llanet - Figueres, Girona, Spain
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Vinces Gené Llanet, Girona, Spain, resident assassinated at Mauthausen concentration camp, is memorialized with a Stolpersteine in Figueres.
Waymark Code: WM180FY
Location: Cataluña, Spain
Date Posted: 05/03/2023
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Vinces Gené Llanet, Girona, Spain, resident assassinated at Mauthausen concentration camp, is memorialized with a Stolpersteine in Figueres. Among a brass plaques dozen placed throughout the town as part of artist
Gunter Demnig's memorial project, this marker is embedded near the northeast corner of Plaça Ajuntament (Town Hall Square) at the corner of Carrer de la Jonquera and Carrer de Peralada. It reads:
AQUí VISQUÉ
VICENS
GENÉ LLANET
NASCUT 1888
EXILIAT
DEPORTAT 1940
MAUTHAUSEN
ASSASSINAT 7.12.1940
Translated:
I LIVE HERE
VICENS
GENÉ LLANET
BORN 1888
EXILED
DEPORTED 1940
MAUTHAUSEN
MURDERED 7.12.1940
This is the first Stolpersteine I have seen in person. The moment was even more poignant as somebody stepped on the stone at the exact same time as I bent down to snap a photo...
Address:
Plaça Ajuntament, 17600 Figueres, Girona, Spain