Gurs internment camp (French: Camp de Gurs, pronounced [kɑ̃ də ɡyʁs]) was an internment camp and prisoner of war camp constructed in 1939 in Gurs, a site...
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Mickey au Camp de Gurs (Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp) is a 1942 French comic booklet by German-born French cartoonist of Jewish descent Horst...
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Numerous internment camps and concentration camps were located in France before, during and after World War II. Beside the camps created during World...
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Horst Rosenthal (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
book Mickey au Camp de Gurs (Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp) which he created while he was a prisoner at the Gurs internment camp in France during...
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Gurs (French pronunciation: [ɡyʁs]) in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. Gurs was the site of the Gurs internment camp. Nothing...
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created a comic book, Mickey au Camp de Gurs (Mickey Mouse in the Gurs Internment Camp) while detained in the Gurs internment camp during the Second World War;...
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Tatjana Barbakoff (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
invasion of France by German troops, she was sent on 10 May 1940 to Camp de Gurs for internment. In June she was released again and moved to Nay, and later to...
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This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country. In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government...
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Hannah Arendt (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
border. Arendt and the other women were sent to Camp Gurs, to the west of Gurs, a week later. The camp had earlier been set up to accommodate refugees...
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as Catalonia, stranded in Roussillon. Next to Gurs (outer fringes of Soule, in Bearn), an internment camp was established in Mars-April 1939. It lasted...
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Maria Darmstädter (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
was deported to Gurs internment camp by the Nazis in October 1940 and murdered in Auschwitz. Her letters from Nazi concentration camps were published in...
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Jean Améry (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
German alien and wound up interned in the south. After escaping from the camp at Gurs, he returned to Belgium where he joined the Resistance movement. Involved...
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Alice Herz (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
Following the Invasion of France, Herz and her daughter spent time at Gurs internment camp near the Spanish border, Alice and Helga eventually came to the United...
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Drancy internment camp (French: Camp d'internement de Drancy) was an assembly and detention camp for confining Jews who were later deported to the extermination...
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Johanna Geissmar (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
called Angel in Hell by the patients she helped during her stay in Gurs internment camp from October 1940 to August 1942. Johanna Geissmar was the youngest...
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in camps set up by the French government under Daladier. Conditions in such camps were appalling, such as in the case of the Gurs internment camp. In...
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conditions at Argelès. Many refugees ended up confined in those camps, e.g. Gurs internment camp. Marcel Langer, member of the international brigades, later...
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committee to provide aid to the Republican refugees who were held at Gurs internment camp at the end of the Civil War. In June 1940, Münzenberg fled from Paris...
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Pithiviers internment camp was a concentration camp in Vichy France, located 37 kilometres northeast of Orléans, closely associated with Beaune-la-Rolande...
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Irene Wosikowski (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
political education and publishing till 1940 when she was placed in the Gurs internment camp. After her escape she joined the Résistance. Living "underground"...
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Marta Feuchtwanger (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
women's internment camp at Gurs. Conditions were poor: then, during the summer of 1940 she became increasingly alarmed by the appearance at the camp of German...
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The Holocaust in France (section Drancy camp)
authority for the incarceration of foreign Jews in internment camps in southern France such as Gurs. These internees were joined by convoys of Jews deported...
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Conlon Nancarrow (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
fighting against Francisco Franco. He was interned by the French at the Gurs internment camp in 1939. Upon his return to the United States in 1939, he learned...
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Eva Busch (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
transported to the Gurs internment camp in the far southwest of the country where Busch remained between May and July 1940. The Gurs internment camp had been created...
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Dora Werzberg (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
worked in the Camp de Rivesaltes and the Gurs internment camp, and took care of children who had survived the Nazi concentration camps. She died during...
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Kasilda Hernáez (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
Likiniano in France, where they were detained in the Argelès and Gurs concentration camps until the summer of 1940. Once free, they moved to Bordeaux. Their...
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Paul Diel (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
because he was a foreign national, he became imprisoned in the Gurs internment camp in southern France during World War II. After his release, he was...
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Alice Wosikowski (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
government on the southern half. She was arrested and placed in the Gurs internment camp west of Lourdes, far to the south. But by the July 1940 Irene Wosikowski...
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Lotte H. Eisner (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
Jewish women. From there, they were transported to Gurs internment camp in the Pyrenees, a concentration camp run by the French for the Germans. After a few...
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Ernst Friedrich (category Gurs internment camp survivors)
Vichy regime and became a prisoner in the St. Cyprien camp, and afterwards in the Gurs internment camp. After 18 months, he was able to escape. In 1943, he...
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