In 1940, Louis Torcatis joined the French Resistance under the pseudonym Bouloc and became head of the secret army of Languedoc Roussillon.
When General de Gaulle published a list of 1,038 resistance heroes who contributed to the liberation of France; only six were women
This year, 2024, marks the 79th anniversary of VE Day, the formal acceptance of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender to the Allies.
The Spanish republican soldiers of the 9th company in General Leclerc’s 2nd Armoured Division fought Nazism on the side of the Allies
Enamoured of both the beauty and long and fascinating history of Port-Vendres, the Great Port Vendres Tapestry Association was started in July 2015 to create a large tapestry of the history of the town.
A simplification of the convoluted military history of the Cote Vermeille
Our own little bit of horror and inhumanity here in the P-O. Never forget lest it happen again.
Symbol of Catalan resistance during WW2, the village of Valmanya on the CD 13 coming from Vinça, was totally destroyed by the Germans in August 1944, not long before the liberation, in reprisal against resistance fighters operating in the area .
la Jonquera Exile Memorial Museum (MUME), an immaculately kept and poignant reminder of the Retirada, a place for ‘memory, history and critical reflexion’.
The Retirada. Nearly half a million Spanish civilians and soldiers fled to France. The P-O authorities were unprepared and hostile.