Beaune-la-Rolande camp
Built in 1939 to house future German prisoners of war for the World War II, the camp was later used by the Germans, who grouped French prisoners of war here before sending them to Germany.
From May 14, 1941 and the Rafle du billet vert, the camp took in foreign Jews arrested, in occupied France, by the French police, on the orders of the German authorities.
2,773 Jews left Beaune-la-Rolande on June 28, August 5 and 7, and September 23, 1942, either directly for the Auschwitz camp in Poland, or for the Drancy camp northeast of Paris.
On August 17, 1942, the mass deportation of children took place, the vast majority of them French, whose parents had already been deported (see the Vélodrome d'Hiver Roundup). Around 1,500 children from the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp were part of convoy no. 20, which transported them to Drancy under appalling conditions.
The camp was closed in July 19431 by Alois Brunner, sent to France by Adolf Eichmann to assist SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Röthke, Dannecker's successorsince July 27, 1942. The internees were transferred to Drancy
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