Gurs

By early 1940, Gurs served as an internment camp for Jewish prisoners. Between 6 August 1942 and 3 March 1943, Vichy officials turned over 3,907 Jewish prisoners from Gurs to the Germans. The Germans sent the majority of them to the Drancy transit camp, and from there predominantly to Auschwitz. Vichy authorities closed the Gurs camp in November 1943. For more information, please see: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Gurs.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/gurs. Accessed 3 June 2021.