Funeral of last Catalan Ravensbrück concentration camp survivor held in Toulouse
Conxita Grangé was part of French Resistance and was praised for her efforts to “explain the brutality”
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Judge grants Open Arms permission to set sail from Italy
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More suspected cases of listeriosis in Catalonia
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Final Catalan survivor of Ravensbrück concentration camp dies
Conxita Grangé died in Toulouse, aged 94
Spanish Civil War bomb detonated off coast of Barcelona
Explosive, dating back to 1936, was found at city’s Sant Sebastià beach
‘No security crisis’ - The facts behind the Barcelona ‘crime wave’
Police say long-term data “not alarming or exceptional” despite recent uptick in robberies
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