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The Gurs internment camp was created in April 1939 by the French Government near the village of Gurs in the department of Basses Pyrénées to detain the large number of refugees displaced by the Spanish Civil War seeking political asylum in France. By 1940, numerous foreign nationals, largely Jewish refugees, were branded "enemy aliens" and also sent to Gurs. Beginning in October 1940, many Jews from the southwestern provinces of Germany were deported to Gurs. The camp held 7,000 Jews. On August 6, 1942, German authorities began transferring thousands of Jewish prisoners from Gurs to Drancy, from where most were later deported to Auschwitz. On November 1, 1943, the Vichy government suspended operations at Gurs. In April 1944, French authorities restored the camp to hold political prisoners and resistance fighters. In August 1944, the resistance movement Forces Francaises de l'Interieur took control of Gurs and used the camp to incarcerate German POWs. Later French citizens charged with collaboration were also interned there. De Gaulle's government closed Gurs on December 31, 1945. (en-US)

Fonte

Caron, Vicki. Uneasy Asylum: France and the Jewish Refugee Crisis 1933-1942. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999. pp. 240-267, 322-323, 332

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• Basses-Pyrénées (Francia : Department)