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Photograph of Septfonds concentration camp
Photo by Unknown via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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From Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA where not otherwise stated).

  • Camp Septfonds baraque barbeles.jpg

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

  • Septfonds - Camp de Judes Memorial.jpg

    Photo by Vanessa Couchman hat am 2. Dezember 2023 schriftlich dem Upload der Fotos nach Wikimedia Commons zugestimmt und dafür ihre Originaldateien zur Verfügung gestellt. via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Septfonds - camp signpost.jpg

    Photo by Vanessa Couchman hat am 2. Dezember 2023 schriftlich dem Upload der Fotos nach Wikimedia Commons zugestimmt und dafür ihre Originaldateien zur Verfügung gestellt. via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Septfonds - memorial to deported Jews Squ Henri Grau.jpg

    Photo by Vanessa Couchman hat am 2. Dezember 2023 schriftlich dem Upload der Fotos nach Wikimedia Commons zugestimmt und dafür ihre Originaldateien zur Verfügung gestellt. via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

  • Septfonds - Mémorial du Camp de Judes -1.JPG

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

  • Septfonds - Polish oratory.jpg

    Photo by Vanessa Couchman hat am 2. Dezember 2023 schriftlich dem Upload der Fotos nach Wikimedia Commons zugestimmt und dafür ihre Originaldateien zur Verfügung gestellt. via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Background

Camp of Septfonds, also called Camp of Judes, was a labor camp for men before and during World War II, located in southern France near Septfonds, established in 1939, and run by the French Third Republic and the Vichy government. The Moldovan-French photojournalist Isaac Kitrosser managed to continue as a photographer while interned at Septfonds. His photographs, including "Cérémonie juive dans le camp de Septfonds," were among the first published concentration camp photos after liberation in 1944.

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

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