Francisco Boix (1920-1951) was a photographer and militant anti-fascist Catalan Unified Socialist Youth. During the English Civil War worked as a photographer in the magazine Juliol. In 1939 he went into exile in France where he joined a company of foreign workers integrated into the French army. In May 1940 was captured by German forces invaded France, like many English. The Nazi army was sent in early 1941 to the concentration camp of Mauthausen-Gusen, which killed two-thirds of the more than 7,000 English held there. In Mauthausen, Boix worked most of his period of detention in the photo lab of the field that the Administration intended mainly for police use. Until 1945, managed to hide a large number of photographs showing aspects of the harsh reality of the field and practice of extermination of prisoners. Many of them also appeared the faces of the SS responsible for the field and high-ranking Nazi who visited him.
Boix was witnessed in 1946 in two trials against Nazi war criminals: In Nuremberg and Dachau.
Here you have a documentary that chronicles his life and his stay in the Mauthausen concentration camp, and the framework that had to be devised to hide the photos that would become key evidence in the various trials of Nazi war criminals in which he participated.
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Francisco Boix statements in the Nuremberg trials
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