Lot 453
Collection of Telegrams Sent from the Gurs Detention Camp, France – 1941-1942
Eight telegrams sent from the Gurs detention camp via the Red Cross by Jewish parents to their son, a student in Eretz Israel, 1941-1942. French.
Gurs detention camp was established in 1939 to control the flood of refugees who arrived in France through the Spanish border. After the anti-Jewish legislation of October 1940, more and more Jewish immigrants were imprisoned there.Starting in 1942, trucks loaded with Jews left the camp to extermination camps in the east.
Eight telegrams. Good condition.
