Voves is a common French, located in the department of Eure-et-Loir and the area Center.

Geography

Voves is a commune installed on one of the first Gallic roads between Chartres and Orleans. At that time, Beauce is timbered still enough, and the toponym, of Celtic origin, attests some (Voves < Vovae (1250) < * Vidua , forest). Note: this etymology, defended by Dauzat, remains problematic as well as possible.

It is isolated in the center from Beauce, but however served today by the railway line between Paris-Austerlitz and Tours via Châteaudun and Vendôme, which approximately puts it at one hour Paris. The other railway line, between Chartres and Orleans is closed today with the passenger traffic, in spite of petitions repeated to require its reopening.

History

The camp of Voves was arranged in 1939 to accommodate a center of instruction of DCA. It is used in 1940 and 1941 by the German army for the regrouping of prisoners of war French.

At the end of 1941, the French authorities seek to move the camp of Aincourt, in the current department of the Val-d'Oise, where are interned since October 1940 of the Communist militants of the Paris region.

It is to this end that the occupying army agrees to restore with the French administration the camp of Voves. January 5th 1942, a first group of internees arrives of Aincourt at Voves to give the places in state.

During May following and April, massive arrivals mark the beginning of the real operation of the camp the first internees come not only from the camp from Aincourt but also from those from Gaillon, in the the Eure, and of Châteaubriant, in Loire-Atlantique. Other transfers will follow, in particular coming from the camps of Rouillé, in the Vienna, of Ecrouves, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, and of Pithiviers, in the Loiret.

The large majority of the internees consists of " politiques" , mainly of the communist militants and sympathizers, but some are, to take again the vocabulary of the time, the " indésirables" , primarily from abroad, and the " rights communs" , traffickers of the black-market or taken again justice.

The history of the camp is marked by the importance of the part played by the Directorate of Political Affairs communist, of course clandestine, which, with an aim of forming political and military executives for the Résistance, creates a true university and organizes stage performances and sporting events, but also, in a more dramatic way, by the taking away of hostages and the transfers of internees towards the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Mauthausen, finally by several spectacular escapes.

In the night from May 5th to 6th 1944, forty-two internees escape by a one hundred forty-eight meters length tunnel, dug starting from the hut of the showers and which goes down to two meters of depth to pass under the fence of the camp a detachment of S takes the control of the camp then and, on May 9th, the totality of the internees is transferred to Compiegne, then, a few weeks later, in the concentration camp of Neuengamme, close to Hamburg. There will be only few survivors…

From August 1944 with 1947, the camp is again used, this time to accommodate German prisoners of war.

the camp today : The site of the camp is today a place of memory, maintained by a Committee the memory.

It gathers a hut museum, a Memorial, a coach of the type of those having been used for the deportation of the internees, various memories of the camp and a Arboretum.

Administration

|- | align=right| March 2001 || ||Maryvonne Genin||without label||

Marc Guerrini, the current assistant of the mayor, also president of the community of communes of Beauce vovéenne and vice-president of the general advice was elected, on June 10th, 2007, temporary deputy of Philippe Vigier (New Center) in the 4th district of Eure-et-Loir.

Demography

Places and monuments

• Church Saint-Lubin
• Fountain Saint-Lubin
• Dolmen (near the Saint-Lubin fountain)

Personalities related to the commune

Tally of life

flowered City: 2 flowers allotted by the National council of the Cities and Flowered Villages of France to the Contest of the cities and flowered villages.

See too

• Common of Eure-et-Loir

External bonds

• http://www.chez.com/gmois/
• Voves on the site of the national geographical Institute
• Voves on the site of INSEE
• Voves on the site of Quid
• Localization of Voves on a chart of France and communes bordering
• Plane on Voves on Mapquest

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