Camp de Rivesaltes

Local nameCamp de Rivesaltes
LocationSalses-le-Château

The Camp de Rivesaltes, also known as Camp Maréchal Joffre, was a military camp in the commune of Rivesaltes nearby Perpignan in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales in the South of France. The camp was also used to detain civil populations several times between 1939 and 2007. Its darkest period was in 1942, when 2,251 Jews, including 110 children, were transferred from Rivesaltes via the Drancy internment camp to the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

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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