Gurs internment camp

GPTKB entity

Statements (47)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf concentration camp
gptkbp:capacity over 18,000
gptkbp:closed 1946
gptkbp:coordinates 43.3167° N, 0.7167° W
gptkbp:country gptkb:France
gptkbp:demolished 1946
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Gurs internment camp
gptkbp:location Gurs, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
gptkbp:memorial Jewish cemetery at Gurs
gptkbp:notableEvent used by Vichy regime for Jews and political prisoners
deportation of Jews to Drancy and Auschwitz
internment of Spanish Civil War refugees
liberated by Allies in 1944
gptkbp:notableInmate gptkb:Arthur_Koestler
gptkb:André_Weil
gptkb:Hannah_Arendt
gptkb:Walter_Benjamin
gptkb:Ernst_Busch
gptkb:Max_Ernst
gptkb:Fritz_Löhner-Beda
gptkb:Heinrich_Mann
gptkb:Lion_Feuchtwanger
gptkb:Hans_Bellmer
gptkb:Walter_Hasenclever
gptkb:Otto_Freundlich
Fritz Brupbacher
Julius Meyer
Karl Einstein
gptkbp:opened April 1939
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:Vichy_France
gptkb:French_Third_Republic
gptkbp:partOf French internment camp system
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Spanish_Civil_War
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkb:Drancy_internment_camp
gptkb:Auschwitz_concentration_camp
gptkb:Vichy_France
gptkb:Holocaust_in_France
gptkbp:usedFor internment of Jews
internment of political prisoners
internment of German anti-Nazis
internment of Roma people
internment of Spanish Republican refugees
internment of other refugees
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Le_Chemin_de_Gurs
gptkb:World_War_II_France
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7