Beaune-the-Rolande (camp of transit)
the camp of transit of Beaune-the-Rolande was located on the common same name in the department of the Loiret (current area Center).
Built in 1939 to lock up there the future German prisoners of war of the Second world war, this camp was used in fact for the Germans who gathered there prisoners of war French before their sending in Germany.
Located close to the center town, it was placed under the double responsibility of the Prefecture of Loiret and the German authority. Composed of 14 huts isolated by barbed wires and supervised by watchtowers, it accommodated as of on May 14th, 1941 the Polish Jews stopped in France.
2.773 Jews left Beaune-the-Rolande the June 28th, August 5th and 7th, September 23rd, 1942 either directly for Auschwitz or for Drancy.
August 17th, 1942 took place the deportation in mass of the children, in very great French majority, whose parents had already been off-set. 1.500 children approximately of the camp of transit of Beaune-the-Rolande belong to the convoy n° 20 which will convey them in Drancy under terrible conditions.
The camp was closed the August 4th 1943 by Aloïs Brunner recently sent in France by Adolf Eichmann to assist the SS-Obersturmführer Heinz Röthke, successor of Dannecker since the July 27th 1942.
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