The Shoah (1939–1945)
Roundup of the Nexon Camp
août 1942·Nexon
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
The Haute-Vienne camp gathers foreign Jews from Limousin before their movement toward the occupied zone.
The camp at Nexon, in Haute-Vienne, served as a transit camp for interned foreigners from the Limousin region. At the end of the summer, the regional administration gathered the foreign Jews under its jurisdiction there to hand them over to the occupier, in accordance with directives from Vichy. The convoys traveled to Drancy via Limoges. Nexon had also received patients transferred from the large camps of the Southwest, whom the roundup did not spare.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- France
Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris ; Yad Vashem, base des communautés.