February 9 he crossed the French border through La Junquera. France Once in France he was in the concentration camps of Saint-Cyprien, Argelès-sur-Mer, and Gurs. In this last field he met José María Aguirre Salaberría, his future brother-in-law and companion in captivity in Mauthausen. In Gurs Marcelino joined the Foreign Workers Company and was assigned to the "26 work company". After a short stay in the Septfonds concentration camp he was transferred to the Maginot Line. Captured by the Nazis in Epinal in June 1940, he was transferred to the Stalag V D in Strasbourg (identification number 3293). Mauthausen On December 13, 1940 he was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp (Austria) with identification number 4628. There he worked for two years in the well-known quarry of Mauthausen, and managed to survive thanks to his picaresque and his youth. During his stay in Mauthausen he was the victim of an experiment that the Nazi doctor Aribert Heim carried out with 30 prisoners using toxic elements and of whom only 7 survived. Finally, on April 10, 1943, he left Mauthausen permanently to move to the concentration camp by Ebensee. There, thanks to the experience gained and the group of Spanish Republicans, he managed to get a job in the country kitchen. Faced with the withdrawal of the Nazis from all fronts, he participated in the resistance apparatus of the camp created in order to prevent the slaughter of the prisoners. On May 5, 1945, the Ebensee concentration camp was liberated. After a last odyssey through Austria together with other colleagues he managed to reach Paris on foot, where he was treated by the French Government. Bibliography References 20th-century Spanish military personnel 1920 births 2014 deaths Mauthausen concentration camp survivors People from Alonsotegi