Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp

Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp was a French-run Nazi transit camp for Jews in Beaune-la-Rolande, France.[1][2] 18,000 Jews were held in the camp, most of them to be transported to Auschwitz. The camp was closed on 4 August 1943 by SS officer Alois Brunner, then commander of Drancy concentration camp, under direct orders from Heinrich Himmler.[3]

PK 696, Prisoner at the internment camp

See also

Notes
  • René Blum, founder of the Ballet de l'Opéra at Monte Carlo, was interned in the camp.
  • The Austrian-born French composer Ralph Erwin died while being held in the camp.
  • Polish artist Zber was imprisoned in the camp, where he completed some of his paintings, before his deportation to Auschwitz.
  • Part of the movie Sarah's Key was set in the camp.

References
  1. Drew, Aoife. "How Anne Sinclair managed to get over the DSK debacle". independent.ie. independent.ie. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. Ellenzweig, Allen. "In Holocaust Film, Reality Is Bad Enough". forward.com. The Forward Association, Inc. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  3. Wieviorka, Annette (2000). Les biens des internés des camps de Drancy, Pithiviers et Beaune-la-Rolande. Paris: Documentation française. p. 31. ISBN 2110045485.

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