The Vigatà family gave rise to a phenomenon that could go viral today. Four of the five siblings born at the end of the 20th century in the small town of Torregrossa (Pla d'Urgell) became school teachers, an unusual coincidence in an era when rural illiteracy was prevalent. The fifth sibling, Marcel·lí Vigatà was a councillor for the ERC party and died in the war.

After the Civil War was lost, Catalonia saw one of its greatest writers and intellectuals go into exile. Xavier Benguerel wrote that exile has no end and that the exile is forever. It is not easy to explain the exodus and the longing of thousands of Catalans who had to leave. Teresa Pi-Sunyer experienced it firsthand. She is the cleansing ofAugust Pi-Sunyer, who had to go into exile with his brothers, Carlos and Santiago. August Pi i Sunyer (1879-1965), a renowned physiologist and professor at the University of Barcelona; Santiago Pi i Sunyer (1893-1981), also a prestigious physiologist and professor at the University of Zaragoza; and Carles Pi i Sunyer (1888-1971), a trained engineer and politician, always hoped to return to Catalonia and live in their beloved Roses. Only Santiago returned to Catalonia (he was the youngest of the brothers and the least politicized) in the early 1960s.