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Schirmeck-Vorbrück concentration camp

Bas-Rhin, France · built 1940

Schirmeck concentration camp, known in French as Camp de Schirmeck, in German Sicherungslager Vorbruck-Schirmeck, was a Nazi concentration camp located in the commune of Schirmeck, in the Bas-Rhin region of annexed Alsace, which operated from August 1940 to November 1944 during the German military administration in occupied France during World War II of Alsace. It was intended for men and women from Alsace and Moselle who had resisted the Nazi regime, and for their families in reprisal. But in fact it took in prisoners from all over the world, as individual fates changed and Nazi repressive laws evolved. In particular, more than a hundred resistance fighters belonging to the Alliance network, 108 of whom were murdered on the night of September 1 to 2, 1944, transported to the Struthof camp for execution along with 360 other prisoners.

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