Holocaust Memorials - Monuments, Museums and Institutions in Commemoration of Nazi Victims

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.