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Les Milles concentration camp

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  • Camp des Milles 1 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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    Photo by Cauchoisanthony via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Camp des Milles 10 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Camp des Milles 11 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Camp des Milles 12 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Camp des Milles 13 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Camp des Milles 14 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

  • Camp des Milles 15 (Les Milles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France).jpg

    Photo by Alaric Favier via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Background

The Camp des Milles [kɑ̃ de mil] was a French internment camp, opened in September 1939, in a former tile factory near the village of Les Milles, part of the commune of Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône). In October 2015, the site was chosen by UNESCO as the headquarters for its new Chair of Education for Citizenship, Human Sciences and Shared Memories.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

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