Camp of the Miles

The Camp of the Miles (Rhone delta) was a French Concentration camp, open in September 1939, in a factory in bankruptcy, a tilery, with the hamlet of the Milles (common of Aix-en-Provence).

It was used initially as Camp of internment for national German, in 1939, mixing with authentic Nazis and the German refugees, often Jewish. Artists were interned there until 1940, like Hans Bellmer, max Ernst, Lion Feuchtwanger, Robert Liebknecht, Ferdinand Springer, François Willi Wendt and Wols.

Then, the Vichy government interned there Jews, which it delivered to the authorities Nazis. Children were thus off-set in August 1942 starting from this camp

Memorial of the camp

The July 22nd 2007, association " Memory of the camp of Milles" launch a call to obtain a financing for a Memorial with the camp of the Miles. Three days later, the Representative council of the Jewish institutions (CRIF) to Marseilles announces that the State will take responsibility for its a third of the budget of financing.

External bonds

artists of the camp of the Miles on the site Jewish Memory and Education .
deportation of children starting from the camp in 1942 on the site Jewish Memory and Education .
Memory of the Camp of the Miles, a project of education citizen and culture on the site Association Memory of the Camp of the Miles .
http://www.apra.asso.fr/Camps/Fr/Camp-LesMilles.html
Lists of the internees of the camp of the Miles 1941

Documents

Miles, the train of freedom, Sebastien Grall. Film and dvd.
Of the painters to the camp of the Miles, Actes Sud editions, 1997
Miles, memory of the camp of the artists, article of Release of the Monday, February 26, 2007.

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