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Le Vernet d'Ariège concentration camp
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Operational period: 1918–1944.
Background
Le Vernet Internment Camp, or Camp du Vernet, was a concentration camp in Le Vernet, Ariège, near Pamiers, in the French Pyrenees. It was built in 1918 as a barracks, but after World War I it was used as an internment camp for prisoners of war. From February 1939 to June 1944, it was used: first as an internment camp (concentration camp), first for Republican refugees (soldiers, their families, opponents of the Franco regime) fleeing Spain after Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War: in particular some 12,000 refugees, including soldiers of the Durruti Column and others of the International Brigades; then, as of MayâJune 1940, under the Vichy government during German occupation in the Second World War. Starting in 1940, apart from the prisoners coming from the Spanish Civil War, the Vichy government used it to house prisoners considered suspect or dangerous to the government, including members of the resistance and opponents of the Hitler, Mussolini and Pétain regimes; then, from 1942 until June 1944, it was used as a holding camp for Jewish families awaiting deportation to other camps. The last transport out of the camp in June 1944 took the prisoners to Dachau concentration camp.
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1918
Closed 1944
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Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1918
Region
Le Vernet
Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
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Visiting
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Mailing
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Practical info
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Known issues
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Notable inmates
Nicolas Lazarévitch1895–1975 · political activistNicolas Lazarévitch (17 August 1895 â 24 December 1975) was a Belgian-born French electrician, a building worker, a proof-reader and, most consistently, a libertarian-anarchist writer and activist.
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Arthur Koestler1905–1983 · writerArthur Koestler (UK: , US: ; German: [ËaÊtuËÉ̯ ËkÅstlÉ]; Hungarian: Kösztler Artúr [ËkøstlÉr ËÉrtuËr]; 5 September 1905 â 1 March 1983) was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist.
- Leo Kneler1902–1979 · French resistance fighter
- Joseph Uchsera1907–1944
- Adriaan Martens1885–1968 · physician
Max Aub1903–1972 · writerMax Aub Mohrenwitz (June 2, 1903, Paris â July 22, 1972 Mexico City) was a Mexican-Spanish experimentalist novelist, playwright, poet, and literary critic.
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Data completeness
28%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- EHRI Authority Record
- Wikidata entity
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- EHRI Authority List of Camps and Ghettos / USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos — European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI) / United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
- Wikidata (Q973585)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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World Prisons. (2026). Le Vernet d'Ariège concentration camp. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/le-vernet-d-ariege-concentration-camp
"Le Vernet d'Ariège concentration camp." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/le-vernet-d-ariege-concentration-camp.
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