in detail
Internment camp from 02.04.1939 - 31.12.1945: Four different groups were interned successively here during its existence.
02.04.1939 - 10.05.1940
Group 1: Spanish Republicans and volunteers of the International Brigade. A total of 27.350 imprisoned, all men.
10.05. - 01.09.1940
Group 2: "Undesirable people". Essentially these were women who came originally from Germany or a country belonging to the "Drittes Reich". In addition men who expressed themselves "subversive" were interned (communist, spanish Basques etc.). A total 14.795 men and women.
01.09.1940 - 25.08.1944
Group 3: Foreign Jews. A total of 18.185 men, women and children were interned by the government of Vichy. They were deported systematically from Gurs to Auschwitz. From 1942 onwards they were murdered there.
25.08.1944 - 31.12.1945
Group 4: Collaborators and about hundreds of spanish Antifranco-Followers.
A total of 3.370 imprisoned, all men.
1980
Foundation of the charitable and independent association "L’Amicale du camp de Gurs".
1994
Positioning of a monument as a symbol for the deportations to Auschwitz at the north entrance of the camp. It is a 180-m-long railway track which hold two commemorative plaque.
2007
A site tour (open air) at the north entrance. It includes a building with a permanent exhibition, a "path of memories" (400 m length with information boards, goes to the cemetery which has 1.074 graves) as well as a "historical path" (1 km length with 23 information boards, goes to a reconstructed barrack.
2012
Opening of the "avenue of the internees" at the south entrance of the camp.
Gurs, 2015, Symbol of the association "Amicale du Camp de Gurs", Amicale du Camp de Gurs.
Gurs, 1939, Aerial view on the camp, Amicale du Camp de Gurs.
Gurs, before April 1939, The construction of the camp, Amicale du Camp de Gurs.
Gurs, between April 1939 & May 1940, Spanish Republicans and volunteers of the International Brigade, Amicale du Camp de Gurs.