The French internment camp “Camp de Gurs” was located on the edge of the Pyrenees in a rugged landscape. The prisoners in the camp could see this landscape through the barbed-wire fence, but could not reach it. The camp was a terrible, inhumane place. The Jewish men and women who arrived at Camp Gurs after a four-day train ride found wooden huts, mud, cramped quarters, an insufficient supply of food, and inadequate sanitary
conditions. Many people died of malnutrition and disease.
Some of the children were rescued from the camp by a children’s aid organization and taken to Switzerland. The Jewish people who were still in the Gurs camp in 1942 were deported to Auschwitz, Sobibor, or Treblinka—to their deaths in these concentration camps.
This guided tour explains the conditions in the internment camp and recounts the stories of individual people.
conditions. Many people died of malnutrition and disease.
Some of the children were rescued from the camp by a children’s aid organization and taken to Switzerland. The Jewish people who were still in the Gurs camp in 1942 were deported to Auschwitz, Sobibor, or Treblinka—to their deaths in these concentration camps.
This guided tour explains the conditions in the internment camp and recounts the stories of individual people.
This text was translated by an AI.
