Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp

Beaune-la-Rolande
Transit camp
Prisoners in front of the barracks of Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp
Beaune-la-Rolande Location of Beaune-la-Rolande in France
Coordinates	48°04′14″N 2°25′48″E / 48.0706°N 2.4300°E / 48.0706; 2.4300
Location	Beaune-la-Rolande, Loiret German-occupied France
Operated by	French Police German authorities
Commandant	Commandant de Taddey Commandant Lombart[1]
Original use	POW camp
Operational	14 May 1941 – 12 July 1943[2]
Inmates	French, Polish, Czechoslovak, Austrian and German Jews
Number of inmates	6.800[a]
Killed	6.400 deported to Auschwitz
Notable inmates	René Blum, Zber, Ralph Erwin, Adélaïde Hautval, Denise Kandel

Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp was an internment and transit camp^[b] for foreign-born Jews (men, women, and children), located in Beaune-la-Rolande in occupied France, it was operational between May 1941 and July 1943, during World War II.

The camp was first established in 1939, to house future German prisoners of war (POWs). In 1940, following the fall of France, the Germans used it to intern French POW's. On 14 May 1941, the first Jewish prisoners, most of them Polish, arrived following the green ticket roundup, the camp became an internment camp for foreign-born Jews administered by the Loiret prefect under Nazi supervision. The camp consisted of 14 barracks, surrounded by barbed wire and watchtowers and guarded by French gendarmes, the detainees had to perform work inside the camp and at the local farms and plants outside the camp. It was a Type 1 camp meaning that all the inmates were there by decision of the German occupying authorities. In May 1942, by order of Theodor Dannecker, the Germans took over operations from the French^[4] and began deporting most of the internees, including 1,500 children. In September 1942 the camp became an internment facility for non-Jewish communist prisoners. The camp was closed on 4 August 1943.

Together with Pithiviers and Jargeau, Beaune-la-Rolande was one of three internment camps established in the Loiret. During its existence 6,800 foreign and French-born Jews, including 1,500 children, passed through the camp, most of them were eventually deported and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.^[5]

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