Biography

Neus Català was born on October 6, 1915 in Els Guiamets, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. She was married to Albert Roger and Félix Sancho. She died on April 13, 2019 in Els Guiamets, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

Holocaust survivor of the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was interned as an agent of the French Resistance.

Fled Francoist Spain for France in 1939. When Hitler's forces invaded in 1940, she joined the French resistance with her husband, Albert Roger, a Frenchman. She carried weapons, falsified documents, and messages under her headscarf or under a basket of vegetables on her bicycle through Nazi checkpoints. When a collaborator betrayed her, she was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrück, while her husband was sent to Bergen-Belsen. He died within days of liberation in 1945.