Nexon

Nexon ( Neiçon in Occitan) is a common French, located in the department of the High-Vienna and the area the Limousin.

Etymology
Comes from Latin annexio meaning “addition”, which undoubtedly recalls fastening to a church or an additional jurisdiction. (Source: FÉNIÉ Benedicte and Jean-Jacques, Toponymy north-occitane .)

Patron saint : Holy Féréol

Geography

Station

Village flowered (classified three flowers)

History

The June 18th 1569, died of the duke of Double-decker which brought reinforcements as mercenaries to the Protestants. These troops are used for the Bataille of the Rock-the Bee on June 25th.

The town of Nexon entered the History of the Second world war because it was the seat of a " center regroupement" for the foreign Jews stopped in the area by the police force and the gendarmerie Frenchwomen on order of the Vichy government. It is from there that the victims were sent to the Camp of Drancy and from there towards the death camps (Auschwitz, Treblinka in particular) CAMP OF NEXON (High-Vienna)

The CENTER OF STAY SUPERVISES NEXON was built in the current of 1940 and accommodated political prisoners in November 1940.

It included/understood 13 huts making it possible to shelter 1.200 internees; 4 additional constructions will carry the capacity of reception to 1.600 people.

It was surrounded by a network of barbed wires and was supervised by 4 watchtowers.

Chevaux-de-frise supplemented the fence.

Taking into account the frequent transfer of internees towards other French or German camps and labor which the occupant drew there, manpower varied from 150 to 700 prisoners, in majority Communists and trade unionists.

August 29th, 1942, 450 Jews whose 68 children of the area of LIMOGES are stopped and gathered in Nexon. They will be delivered to the Nazis and to deportees to Auschwitz. Jews old evacuated of the Camp of RECEBEDOU found " refuge" in Nexon.

Following its dissolution in November 1943, the internees of the Camp of Gurs will be also transferred to Nexon.

The attack of the camp by the F.F.I on June 11th, 1944 caused a cut of electricity which will be made profitable by 54 prisoners to escape. The other internees will be conveyed in LIMOGES with the Camp of the GREAT SEMINAR.

NEXON becomes again then a camp of administrative internment which will be definitively closed in 1945.

The living conditions to the C.S.S. of Nexon were hard and good number of internees suffered from a lack from hygiene and malnutrition.

Administration

Demography

Places and monuments

the castle
strengthened Église
Courdein ( read Corden kurˈdɛ̃ in Occitan) is a hamlet of the commune of Nexon.

Culture, Leisures

Social center/Not Information Youth

Personalities related to the commune

Stage

See too

Internal bonds

Common of High-Vienna

External bonds

Site of the commune
Nexon on the site of the national geographical Institute
Nexon on the site of INSEE
Nexon on the site of Quid
Localization of Nexon on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Nexon on Mapquest

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