Toulouse: 80 years later, a memorial for Noah’s internment camp
A memorial was inaugurated on Friday for the deportees who passed through Noah’s internment camp, about thirty kilometers south of Toulouse.
The metal sculpture was made by Francis Berger and stands several meters high. Messages in six languages, including French, Hebrew, Spanish and German, have been entered. It cost 45,000 euros and was notably subsidized by the region, the department of Haute-Garonne and the State. Beate and Serge Klarsfeld were present at the inauguration of the memorial.
More than 3,000 people passed through the camp during the war, mainly refugees from the Spanish Civil War and then Jews, victims of persecution by the Vichy regime and the Nazi occupation, many of whom died in deportation.
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300 people died in the camp, and 700 others passed through before being deported to the death camps, from where they did not return.
After the war, the camp welcomed collaborators and did not close until 1947.
The camp left few vestiges.
Another tribute was also held in Nantes on Friday, in memory of the 48 men who fell under Nazi bullets at the Bêle shooting range in Nantes, in the Sablière quarry in Châteaubriant and at Mont-Valérien in Paris.
80 years later, a memorial for Noah’s internment camp, south of #Toulousehttps://t.co/mpEMeEQcIo pic.twitter.com/bPygOe5tvw
– France Bleu Occitanie (@bleuoccitanie) 22 October 2021
The Noah Camp Memorial is inaugurated today near Toulouse.
Between 1940 and 1944, around 3,000 people – mostly Jews and Spanish Republicans – were locked up there. More than 300 lost their lives there. https://t.co/W9qPhFWq9j pic.twitter.com/I9Y214XWrQ– Fondation Shoah (@Fondation_Shoah) 22 October 2021
The duty to remember, a responsibility towards the past.
I was present this morning to pay a solemn tribute to the deportees of the camp of #Noah. I thank Beate and Serge #Klarsfeld to be with us, we have the common will to keep the memory of the #Shoah. pic.twitter.com/vDKMa2wiN1
– Georges Méric (@GeorgesMeric) 22 October 2021
Inauguration of the Noah Camp memorial in the presence of Serge Klarsberg. This camp hosted more than 3,000 people, mainly refugees from the Spanish Civil War and Jews.
Let us carry out the duty of memory and transmission. Never forget. @GeorgesMeric @HauteGaronne pic.twitter.com/mLZbTbwa92– Émilienne Poumirol (@E_Poumirol) 22 October 2021
Inauguration of the Noah Camp Memorial. Speech by Serge and Beate Klarsfeld pic.twitter.com/10QRnFrrnm
– Enea Zarelli (@PJINKX) 22 October 2021
???????? On October 22, 1941, 80 years ago, 48 men fell under Nazi bullets, at the Bêle shooting range in Nantes, in the Sablière quarry in Châteaubriant and at Mont-Valérien in Paris. pic.twitter.com/YEG7Awi9o2
– Johanna Rolland (@Johanna_Rolland) 22 October 2021
