Base Mérimée: Monuments historiques · France
Ancien camp d'internement de Voves
Voves, Eure-et-Loir, France
The record
- Designation
- Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
- Protection
- inscrit MH partiellement
- Extent of protection
- Les sols et les vestiges de deux baraques dont celle des bains-douches (cad. YZ 362a, 226 à 231) : inscription par arrêté du 28 mai 2004
- Protection dates
- 2004/05/28 : inscrit MH
- Type
- camp de concentration
- Main period of construction
- 2e quart 20e siècle
- Dates
- 1939
- Ownership
- propriété de la commune, propriété du département, propriété privée
- Commune
- Voves
- Département
- Eure-et-Loir
- Region
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 48.26410, 1.62643
- Mérimée reference
- PA28000016
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — GéoportailDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesIGN France — Géoportail
5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1767 map "27 Chartres." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
The Ministère de la Culture's notice
Historique
Camp aménagé en 1939 pour accueillir un centre d'instruction de la DCA. Il est utilisé en 1940-1941 par l'armée allemande pour regrouper les prisonniers de guerre français. En 1942, après la restitution du camp aux autorités françaises, y sont internés les militants communistes auparavant regroupés au camp d'Aincourt. La direction politique communiste y créé une université et organise des représentations théâtrales ainsi que des compétitions sportives. Le camp sert également de transfert vers Auschwitz et Mathausen. D'août 1944 à 1947, le camp sert à regrouper les prisonniers de guerre allemands.
English translation
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History
Camp laid out in 1939 to accommodate a training centre for the anti-aircraft artillery. It is used in 1940-1941 by the German army to group French prisoners of war. In 1942, after the camp was returned to the French authorities, communist activists previously grouped at the camp d'Aincourt are interned there. The communist political leadership creates a university there and organises theatrical performances as well as sports competitions. The camp also serves as a transfer point to Auschwitz and Mauthausen. From August 1944 to 1947, the camp serves to group German prisoners of war.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.