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Camp Des Milles
Located near the village of
Les Milles, part of the commune of Aix-en-Provence
Between 1941 and 1942
Le Camp des Milles was used as a transport camp for Jews et al.
More than two-thousand of those held there were eventually shipped
off to the Drancy transport camp before being sent to the
Auschwitz concentration camp. This was done as part of an
agreement between the German government and Vichy government of
France.
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**Visions of
le Camp des Milles** |
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Memorial
Site
"Memorial coach (train boxcar) of the deportation to Auschwitz,
via Drancy, of two thousand Jewish men, women and children in
1942..."
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"From this
platform in Aug-Sep 1942, 1928 Jewish men, women and children were
deported from Camp des Milles to Nazi extermination camps via
Drancy. Refugees from Central Europe or French Jews, they were
delivered....by the Vichy government before even the German
occupation of the South Zone, among them 92 children.
Keep this in
your memory for the present and the future." |
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The plaque
inscription reads:
"Let us remember those who.....August-September 1942.....in the
trains left this quay, carried to the death camps in
Germany,(filled) by the Hitlerians, (spoken for) by the Vichy
government, 1928 men, women and 72 children, Jews, refugees of
Central Europe and some French interned at the Camp des Milles." |
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