Nurse, anti-fascist and survivor of the Ravensbrück Nazi concentration camp. After graduating in nursing in 1937, Neus Català moved to Barcelona to support the government of the Republic. In 1939, she crossed the border with 182 children from the Premià de Dalt orphanage.
In 1943, the Nazis arrested and imprisoned her in Limoges, and deported her to Ravensbrück in Germany the following year. At the camp she was part of the so-called “comando de les gandules” (“lazy brigade”), a group of women who sabotaged arms manufacture at a factory in Holleischen. They succeeded in rendering some ten million bullets unusable and ruined numerous weapons. Once liberated, in 1945 she returned to France, where she continued her anti-Francoist struggle and her militancy in Comunistes de Catalunya. She chaired the Amical de Ravensbrück association, which was created in 2005, and was honoured with various awards such as the Gold Medal of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2005) and the Gold Medal for Civic Merit from Barcelona City Council (2014).
She was one of the women who survived the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she arrived after crossing the French border with 180 children from the orphanage in Premià de Mar and being imprisoned in Limoges.