Conxita Grangé i Beleta

Conchita Grangé Beleta (August 6, 1925, Espui - August 27, 2019, Toulouse), also known as Conchita Ramos, was a Spanish-born French Resistance fighter and Nazi concentration camps survivor.

Biography Early life Conchita Grangé Beleta was born on August 6, 1925, in Espui, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia. The daughter of Josep Grangé and Maria Beleta, she was one of eight siblings. Due to her mother's illness, she was entrusted at a very young age to her maternal uncle and aunt, Jaime Beleta and Elvira Ibarz, who lived in Toulouse, where she spent part of her childhood.

Spanish Civil War In 1936, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the family returned to Catalonia to support the Spanish Republic. she served as a liaison agent, transporting messages and weapons by bicycle

After being denounced, on May 24, 1944, the Foix French Militia (political police created under the Occupation) raided her house in Gudas, where she was hiding resistance fighters. Arrested along with her aunt and her cousin María Ferrer,

On July 3, 1944, Conchita Ramos was deported on the "", a convoy that departed from Toulouse with around 800 prisoners to reach the Dachau concentration camp on August 28, 1944. On September 9, 1944, she was transferred to the Ravensbrück camp, where she received the number 62,480, then to the Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen camp.

After World War II After the war, she returned to France and settled in Toulouse.