Camp de Noé | |
Alt: | Photograph of part of the Noah cemetery dedicated to the graves of Jews who died at Camp Noah during the Second World War |
Caption: | Part of the Noah cemetery dedicated to the graves of Jews who died at Camp Noah during the Second World War |
Type: | Internment transit camp |
Location Map: | France |
In Operation: | 1937-1947 |
Coordinates: | 43.3553°N 1.275°W |
Location: | Noé, Haute-Garonne |
Known For: | Spanish Republicans, Jews |
Built By: | French Ministry of War |
Liberated By: | Maquis (19 August 1944) |
Inmates: | circa 2500 |
Camp de Noé was in 14 hectare internment camp straddling the municipalities of Noé, Le Fauga and Mauzac, south of Toulouse (Haute-Garonne). It should not be confused with the Mauzac detention camp in the Dordogne.
This camp was created in 1941 by the French Ministry of War to hold Spanish Republicans and Jews under Vichy France's anti-Semitic laws. The camp occupied about 14 hectares to the north of Noé where about 2,500 foreigners, about half Jews and half Spanish were held here from February 1941 until July 1942.[1]
The camp was liberated by the Maquis on 19 August 1944 and was then used for the internment of collaborators, but with the same guards. It finally closed in 1947.[2]