During the Second World War thousands of people crossed the Pyrenees fleeing Nazism. One of the escape routes linked the French departments of Ari\u00e8ge and Haute-Garonne with Pallars Sobir\u00e0, passing through the town of Sort, and was called \u201cThe path of freedom\u201d. The fugitives could be Jewish people and families, Allied soldiers and airmen, young Frenchmen of military age who could be recruited by the Nazi army, or people persecuted for other reasons. For the specific case of the Jews, the Diputaci\u00f3 de Lleida, with the collaboration of the Regional Council and local councils, has launched the Persecuted and saved project, which has recovered and marked the escape routes of the Jewish refugees through the Pyrenees of Lleida during the Second World War. Some of the fugitives died on the way, many achieved freedom, and others were arrested by the Civil Guard. The latter were admitted to Sort prison, which was the first reception and reclusion center for fugitives intercepted in Pallars Sobir\u00e0 and Vall d’Aran. The detainees stayed in Sort for a few days, a stage before their transfer to Lleida. Their fate varied depending on the time of the war: some were deported to France, others were able to leave Spain and many were placed in concentration camps and prisons until their embassies or the Red Cross secured their release. On June 23, 2014, the presentation of the Persecuted and saved project took place at the Regional Archive of Pallars Sobir\u00e0. As part of this presentation, the ambassador of the State of Israel in Spain, Mr. Alon Bar, activated the upload of images in order to make visible in Online Archives the documents that contain information about the passage of fugitives from Nazism through Sort prison. These are the documents that order his admission to prison, or his departure to Lleida, and which are part of the correspondence of the fund of the Town Council of Sort. They are a set of 633 documents with a total of 1123 images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14070,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"eix":[3],"class_list":["post-12413","document","type-document","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","eix-sistema-institucional-i-governanca"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n