UNESCO public library and event space
Francesc Boix was a resident of the Poble-sec neighborhood who fought with the Republican army during the Civil War. At the end of the war, he went into exile in France, where he was taken prisoner by the German army and sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp.
Assigned to the camp's photographic laboratory, with the help of other colleagues, he managed to steal and hide some 2,000 negatives of photographs taken inside the camp and which were used to indict senior Nazi commanders in the Nuremberg trial. After his release in Mauthausen, Boix worked in France as a photojournalist for the press affiliated with the French Communist Party (L'Humanité, Ce Soir, Regards). He died in Paris at the age of 30, probably from kidney disease related to his stay in Mauthausen.
The library, in addition to paying homage to him by taking his name, is specialized in culture of peace and Nazi concentration camps (Francesc Boix Fund) and offers, among other things, a center of interest in the Spanish Civil War.