Between February and December of 2025, the Democratic Memorial will install 127 Stolpersteine paving stones in 28 Catalan municipalities to commemorate the people deported from Catalonia to Nazi concentration camps, according to a statement from the Ministry of Justice.
The director of the Democratic Memorial, Jordi Font Agulló, stated that “the Stolpersteine project guarantees personalized and dignified recognition for those who suffered this barbarity,” and added that the goal of this initiative is to ensure their memory endures, in his words.
By the end of the year, when the 127 have been installed, Catalonia will have a total of 678 stolpersteine distributed across 101 municipalities.
This year, Stolpersteine paving stones will be laid in 28 municipalities: 22 are joining this initiative for the first time, while the remaining 6 – Lleida, Tarragona, Terrassa (Barcelona), Olesa de Montserrat (Barcelona), Cubelles (Barcelona), Prats de Lluçanès (Barcelona) and Reus (Tarragona) – are repeating their involvement.
The first Catalan municipality to install them was Navàs (Barcelona) in 2015, with five paving stones, one of which was in memory of Ramon Sala Besa, mayor of the town during the Civil War for ERC who was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and murdered in Gusen in 1942.
