Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp

During its existence 6,800 foreign and French-born Jews, including 1,500 children, passed through the camp, most of them were eventually deported and murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

The first prisoners to arrive in May 1941 were 1,552 foreign and stateless Jews, mainly Polish men from the Paris area, victims of the Green ticket roundup.

A thousand Parisian Jews, mostly women and children, were transferred to Beaune-la-Rolande on 20 July 1942, following the Vel d’Hiv roundup.

[11] The camp was administered by the prefectural office of the Loiret but frequently inspected by representatives of the German occupying authorities.

[14] The prisoners performed forced labour within the camp's workshops and garden, and outside at the farms and plants in the surrounding villages.

[16] In 1965, a stele was constructed at the site in memory of the Jewish internees, on 14 may 1989, a larger monument in black marble with a list of victims and a gold star of David etched out on its summit was added.

4, one of the buildings where prisoners slept, were dismantled and reassembled in Orléans, in the courtyard of the Musée-Mémorial des enfants du Vel 'd'Hiv’.

"May this stone bear witness to the suffering of men"