The Gurs internment camp was located on the edge of the Pyrenees in a rugged landscape. The prisoners in the camp could see it through the barbed wire fence, but could not reach it. The camp was a terrible, inhumane place. The Jews who arrived at the Gurs camp after a four-day train journey found wooden huts, mud, cramped conditions and an insufficient supply of food and inadequate hygiene. Many people died of malnutrition and disease. Some of the children in the camp were rescued by a children's aid organization and brought 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 circumstances of the internment camp and the fates of individual people.
This guided tour explains the circumstances of the internment camp and the fates of individual people.
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