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updated on Monday 21/02/2011 9:05 horasDisminuye the textoAumenta size Kehr textoJenny size was a German Jew who fled the Nazis. Her husband died in prison in 1939 leaving the young all alone with her two daughters. But a year later, Kehr was transferred, along with more than 6,500 Jews, Gurs, a concentration camp in southern France. From there he escaped with twelve men, whom was Max, his new love, whom he had known in the field.

Just after crossing the Pyrenees were arrested. He went to the concentration camp at Miranda del Ebro (men only). She, in the women's prison in Barcelona to be 'delivered' to the Germans who had occupied France. But Kehr chose to put an end to his story and himself (the cause of death on his death certificate was "asphyxia by suspension") in his cell.

Rosa Sala Rose, author of 'The penultimate border. Nazi fugitives in Spain '(Editorial paper roll), contacted the two daughters Jenny Kehr had with her husband, Ursula and Marianne. When contacting them, had escaped to England, warned that "had a very different version of the tragic end of her mother." In fact, they did not know her mother's death until mid-1943.

'The Penultimate border. "

Cases like this out of oblivion in 'The penultimate frontier', which rescues some of "the so-called 'border cases'" Historic Archive in Girona, she explains, Degree in German and Romance philology. "There were only registered people who were arrested for illegal crossing of border," he says. "We just have data on those who managed to dodge the many checks by good luck or the help of networks of evasion, so it is difficult to envision a statistic [of the exiles through the Pyrenees], "he says.

historian Josep Calvet, an expert on the subject, estimates that some 80,000 refugees spent in total by Spain during the Second World War, of whom 50,000 were arrested by the Franco authorities.

the 23 testimonies that make up the book, Rose Hall evidence that refugees were people of all conditions. The author's aim was to find out why they fled, what were the reasons that made them 'jump' the border, what was its origin .... A thorough investigative reporting it took him "about a year of hard work."

One of the testimonies that most impact in the research is to Radewicz Karol, a 16 year old that he could despair. "Having lost their parents in a German bombing in 1939 went through only, and no means, all of Europe to cross the Pyrenees," said Rose Hall. Karola

was dumb, so that the Civil Guards found him wandering path of Barcelona could not interrogate him until two days later, writing in French. The anguish which earned him his transfer to the Provincial Hospice of Our Lady of Mercy in Gerona reached the point where the manager wrote to the civil governor of Karol: "Come for days stating their intention to commit suicide, so it has been necessary, given his state of excitement, have him under constant surveillance."

This letter enclosed a few words (in French) Karol itself: "I can not stay here because for me the world has ended and I would not kill me in this house because that would cause you sadness." So the young Polish out "definitely by government order" of the country by Portbou. And little more is known about the history of this guy who crossed "so secretly [the border] as he had gone through."

looking for this room Rose book return your story to people who were victims of events that otherwise would have been forgotten. " And that's all remember, she invites "those who can provide additional information on all these cases" are brought into contact with it through an email address (historiasdefrontera@gmail.com).