The first memory that Isabel Sarrà y Carbonell (Sabadell, 1935) has is a grey painted boat. It was the SS Massilia, which left the French port of La Rochelle on October 19, 1939, with a host of Spanish Republican refugees fleeing the war. They had already escaped Franco, and now it was their turn to flee Hitler. It was a journey on which a German submarine pursued them. Isabel remembers the trip sipping a Vichy in the elegant cafeteria of the Hotel Urpí in Sabadell, where she stays whenever she can return to her hometown. After decades living in Chile, in recent years she has been returning to Catalonia. She is one of the last Catalan exiles from the Civil War.