Les Milles

This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Les Milles" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2024) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Coat of arms of Les Milles village

Les Milles is a village, part of the commune of Aix-en-Provence, in southern France.

Camp des Milles was opened in September 1939 at a former tile factory in the village. Originally a French internment camp to detain undesirable aliens, it was later used as a transit camp for Jews to be deported to extermination camps, mainly Auschwitz.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Les Milles.

Camp des Milles

References

↑ Guénaël Lemouee, Camp des Milles: la mémoire de la déportation, La Provence, 10 September 2012

43°30′N 5°23′E / 43.500°N 5.383°E / 43.500; 5.383

This Bouches-du-Rhône geographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information.