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19391939–1942 · Les Milles, Aix-en-Provence

The Camp des Milles

The red-brick former tile works of the Camp des Milles near Aix-en-Provence, with its tall chimney
Photo: voyages provence. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

In September 1939 France turned a tile works at Les Milles, near Aix-en-Provence, into a camp for German and Austrian nationals, many of them refugees from Nazism, among them the painters Max Ernst and Hans Bellmer. Under Vichy it became a transit camp, and in August and September 1942 about 2,000 Jewish men, women and children were sent from it via Drancy to Auschwitz.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Site-Mémorial du Camp des MillesThe brickworks buildings, murals painted by internees and a memorial museum.Map ↗

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