Camp de transit de Pithiviers

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Pithiviers, 1941
Arrival at the camp at Pithiviers

Camp de transit de Pithiviers (German transit camp of Pithiviers ) is the French name for a transit camp in Pithiviers . In Pithiviers, in the Loiret department , about 50 km south of Paris , a prisoner of war camp was set up at the beginning of the Second World War to keep German soldiers prisoner. After the French defeat in 1940, it was used by the French Vichy regime as a transit camp (French camp de transit ) for interned Jewish French and foreign refugees. This is where many of the 3,700 foreign Jews captured were initially imprisoned during the Green Letters raid (La rafle du Billet Vert) in May 1941 .

From here, in 1942, six trains as well as the transports from the Drancy assembly camp and from a camp in Beaune-la-Rolande after the raid on Rafle du Vélodrome d'Hiver were deported, in each of which 1,000 prisoners were taken to the Auschwitz extermination camp like cattle in death were transported. Deportation dates : June 25, July 17 and 31, August 3 and September 21, 1942. 115 deportees (less than 2 percent) survived the Shoah from these trains .

From October 1943, the transit camp served as a prison for French political prisoners.

Transport No. 6

The train of July 17, 1942 became known in France as the “convoi n ° 6 du 17 juillet 1942” because it was the first time that women and children were deported in large numbers. It was the sixth of 83 trains of the German occupiers from France to Auschwitz and carried 928 prisoners. One of them was the Ukrainian writer Irène Némirovsky .

memorial

At the location of the camp, a plaque commemorated the victims of the Shoah .

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Coordinates: 48 ° 10 ′ 14 "  N , 2 ° 14 ′ 30"  E