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Wrobel, Franz (fl 1940-1941): Certificate of internment at Gurs concentration camp


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 1556 WL 1290

Held at: Wiener Library

Title: Wrobel, Franz (fl 1940-1941): Certificate of internment at Gurs concentration camp

Date(s): 1957

Level of description: Collection level

Extent: 1 file

Name of creator(s): Sous Prefecture of Oloron

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Gurs was a major internment camp in France, near Oloron-Sainte-Marie, 80 kilometers from the Spanish border. Established in 1939 to absorb Republican refugees from Spain, Gurs later served as a concentration camp for Jews from France and refugees from other countries. While under the administration of Vichy France (1940-1942) most non-Jewish prisoners were released and approximately 2000 Jews were permitted to emigrate. In 1941 Gurs held some 15,000 prisoners. The camp was controlled by the Germans from 1942 to 1944, during which time several thousand inmates were deported to extermination camps in Poland. An unknown number succeeded in escaping and reaching Spain or hiding in Southern France. Gurs was liberated in the summer of 1944.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Certificate issued by the Sous Prefecture of Oloron that Franz Wrobel was interned in Gurs Camp from October 25 1940 to 4 Aug 1941.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: French

System of arrangement:

N/A

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copies can be made for personal use. Permission must be sought for publication.

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Description exists to this archive on the Wiener Library's online catalogue www.wienerlibrary.co.uk

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

This certificate was generated by the local authority archives which hold details on former Gurs inmates.

Immediate source of acquisition:

Wrobel family

ALLIED MATERIALS

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Howard Falksohn.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2008


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Concentration camps | War crimes | Humanitarian law
Internment camps | Humanitarian law
Jews | Religious groups

Personal names
Wrobel | Franz | fl 1940-1941

Corporate names
Gurs concentration camp

Places