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Cemetery Identification
Cemetery ID: FR-05392
Cemetery Name: Cimetiere Israelite
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Cemetery Location
Country: France
City: Gurs  
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Cemetery Details
Number of Burials: 1099
Number of Photographs: 0
Cemetery Description: Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, Aquitaine region. The Jewish Cemetery at the Gurs Concentration Camp is managed by the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Known in German as the Deportiertenfriedhof des Internierungslagers Gurs, the cemetery was the final resting place of many Jews from Baden and after the war during the years 1957-1963 different cities in Baden agreed to undertake the upkeep of the former concentration camp site and the cemetery. Donated by Joël Herreros. For more information on the Camp of Gurs see his site www.gurs.free.fr. The is additional information the site of the society Amicale du Camp de Gurs at www.campgurs.com.
Data last updated: 06/08/2018

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