Sobrevivir a Mauthausen-Gusen

Decades after the war and faithful to the oath pronounced by the Spanish survivors of Mauthausen on the day of liberation, Enrique Calcerrada Guijarro wrote this unique and shocking testimonial book, of great literary significance and historical value. Enrique's story begins in France, along with almost half a million compatriots, fleeing from the advance of Franco's troops. A journey that begins in the extremely harsh camps that the French built on their beaches for the Spanish refugees. The outbreak of the Second World War placed Enrique in a new conflict and he soon fell into the clutches of the German troops. For months he was treated as a prisoner of war, and forced to transit through various camps in France, Germany and occupied Poland. In January 1941, his story took a dramatic turn when he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. From that moment on, he becomes the best chronicler of the fate of millions of men and women in the Nazi camps. When, in October 1941, he was transferred to Gusen - a subcamp of Mauthausen known as the Slaughterhouse, where nearly four thousand compatriots died - Enrique thought that his new assignment could not be worse than the previous one. He was wrong. Carts full of corpses, starving prisoners, hunger, cold, diseases, humiliation and sadism... And, in the face of all this, the desire to survive, the solidarity among the captives and the vital commitment to live to tell about it.