“Perseguits e Savuats. No volien que existíssim” is an exhibition about the Jews who walked across the Pyrenees of Lleida, leaving behind their lives, their families and friends and their country in order to live in peace. The exhibition, which you can visit in Santa Maria de Mijaran until 4 November, also talks about the anonymous and disinterested people who lived in the Pyrenees and who supported them.
This travelling exhibition, which has travelled to Toulouse and Sort, is divided into five parts dedicated to the solidarity of anonymous Lleidans, to the triggers that triggered the alarms among the Jewish people, to the methods of repression and to the historical contexts of the Pyrenees and Spain.
Consult here the schedules of the exhibition.
The “Perseguidos y Salvados” (Persecuted and Saved) project is an initiative of the Lleida Provincial Council, which, through the Ilerdencs Institute of Studies, the Tourist Board and the collaboration of town councils, regional councils and the Conselh Generau d’Aran, has as its main objective to recover the memory of the passage through the Lleida Pyrenees of thousands of Jews who fled the Holocaust during the Second World War.
This initiative has also made it possible to recover and signpost the escape routes of Jewish refugees through the Pyrenees of Lleida during the Second World War. There are four signposted routes that run through Val d’Aran and Alta Ribagorça, Pallars Sobirà, Alt Urgell and Cerdanya.
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