Day of Homage to the Spanish deported and deceased in Mauthausen and other camps and to all victims of Nazism in Spain
Day of Homage to the Spanish deported and deceased in Mauthausen and other camps and to all victims of Nazism in Spain is held on May 5. This event in the first decade of the month May is annual. 
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The Council of Ministers has agreed to establish May 5 as 'Day of Homage to the Spanish deported and deceased in Mauthausen and other camps and to all the victims of Nazism in Spain'. The chosen date coincides with the commemoration of the liberation in 1945 of the Mauthausen camp in Austria.
In this camp were interned about 7,500 Spaniards, mostly Republican exiles who left country at the end of the Civil War. Deprived of their nationality by decision of Franco's government, they suffered countless atrocities and a total of 5,117 died there and in other Nazi concentration camps.
With the establishment of this day and act of homage, to be held annually, as in other European countries, the Government honors the memory of these Spaniards and recognizes that they represent a fundamental part of democratic history for their unsurpassable example of sacrifice and struggle for democracy and freedom.
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