Camp de Rivesaltes

Local nameCamp de Rivesaltes
LocationSalses-le-Château

The Camp de Rivesaltes, also known as Camp Joffre, was an internment and transit camp in the commune of Rivesaltes in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales of the French Southern Zone during World War Two. Between August 11 and October 20, 1942, 2,313 foreign Jews, including 209 children were transferred from Rivesaltes via the Drancy internment camp to the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where they were murdered. Serge Klarsfeld described the camp as the Drancy of the Southern Zone.

Since 2015, the site has been the Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes, a museum and memorial documenting the history of the site.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_de_Rivesaltes

Official Website http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Camp_de_Rivesaltes?uselang=fr

Address (Unnamed Road), 66600, France

Coordinates 42°48'32.329" N 2°53'31.702" E

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