Abstract
In her moving account of Catalan Civil War exiles in Nazi prison camps, the author, Montserrat Roig, speaks about her own inspiration found in the wartime letters of the Republican Pere Vives i Clavé who died in Mauthausen in October 1941 as a result of a Nazi doctors’ experiment involving an injection of gasoline into the heart. She also talks of the novel about life in the camp by Vives’ friend Joaquim Amat-Piniella which was left unpublished for years because the Franco censors considered that it “lacked objectivity.” Reflecting a belief in the necessarily intimate relation between subjectivity and historical memory, she writes:
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