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The camp was organized along the lines so typical of the French administration, mixed ignonimie, corruption and laissez-faire .
Arthur Koestler, written between January and March 1941 about the camp of Le Vernet (Ariège), in The scum of the earth , page 168, Editions Charlot (Paris 7th), 1947.
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The 3rd edition of this book is no longer available, Wallada editions will come out in April or May 2011 a fourth edition which are added, among other documents, testimony from families that author has discovered, and especially the archives of religious Franciscan Missionaries of Mary who, from January 1942 to January 1945, voluntarily lived on mission inside the camp at Montreuil-Bellay to help the internees, mainly children . These records consist primarily of photographs, drawings and newspaper.
. The second
edition can still be ordered on the site Wallada editions: http://www.wallada.fr/
Wallada has specialized for many years in publishing books on Gypsies and Gypsies. http://www.wallada.fr/nouveautes-2009-2010.html
A chance discovery ...
9 years after my arrival at Montreuil-Bellay
In 1980, I discovered that during the Second World War had raged a camp on the territory of my common for adoption. Following preliminary research in archives and with many survivors still at that time, I published it in 1983 editions Wallada first book on this subject which had hitherto not interested historian internment by France of its nomads in many concentration camps. Its title, A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.
Sigot Jacques and Françoise Mingot, its publisher, the site of the camp in 1982. On the right, the entrance to the underground prison camp (the "gnouf).
was the first time what was considered the story of a French concentration camp for Gypsies in the terminology of the time. Followed the study of other camps and the publication of this work in a special issue of Studies Gypsies (No. 2 / 1995): 1939-1946 France: The internment of Gypsies .
had been successively victims of this camp of Montreuil-Bellay throughout the conflict: the English Republicans, French soldiers, civilians Commonwealth of Gypsies (then called "nomads"), tramps Nantes, local collaborators, the Russian "White", German civilians (mostly women) and who married Dutch Nazis.
This first edition caused a large and rich exchange of correspondence which encouraged the publication in Wallada Pathways and a second book in 1994: These barbed forgotten by history. A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.
I want to thank the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, of Paris, and especially Sister Odile, who put at my disposal in 2007 all documents written by the sisters of the Congregation. They had, for four years, voluntarily shared the lives of internees, and sleeping in a hut within the grounds of electrified barbed wire.
These panels, written The Association for AMCT ( Friends of the Memory of the Gypsy camp Montreuil-Bellay ), created in order to save the ruins of the old camp remains endangered, summarize thirty years of struggle to remember a story often distorted or obscured.
Jacques Sigot, August 2008
Click on each panel to enlarge it.
Sigot Jacques and Françoise Mingot, its publisher, the site of the camp in 1982. On the right, the entrance to the underground prison camp (the "gnouf).
was the first time what was considered the story of a French concentration camp for Gypsies in the terminology of the time. Followed the study of other camps and the publication of this work in a special issue of Studies Gypsies (No. 2 / 1995): 1939-1946 France: The internment of Gypsies .
had been successively victims of this camp of Montreuil-Bellay throughout the conflict: the English Republicans, French soldiers, civilians Commonwealth of Gypsies (then called "nomads"), tramps Nantes, local collaborators, the Russian "White", German civilians (mostly women) and who married Dutch Nazis.
This first edition caused a large and rich exchange of correspondence which encouraged the publication in Wallada Pathways and a second book in 1994: These barbed forgotten by history. A camp for Gypsies ... and others. Montreuil-Bellay 1940-1945.
I want to thank the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, of Paris, and especially Sister Odile, who put at my disposal in 2007 all documents written by the sisters of the Congregation. They had, for four years, voluntarily shared the lives of internees, and sleeping in a hut within the grounds of electrified barbed wire.
These panels, written The Association for AMCT ( Friends of the Memory of the Gypsy camp Montreuil-Bellay ), created in order to save the ruins of the old camp remains endangered, summarize thirty years of struggle to remember a story often distorted or obscured.
Jacques Sigot, August 2008
Click on each panel to enlarge it.
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