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Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort

by EUROM | Mar 19, 2018

Kamp Amersfoort (Camp Amersfoort) started off as a Dutch military barrack camp named Barakkenkamp Appelweg (Barrack Camp Appel road) and initially consisted of six barracks in a square formation. In 1939, the camp started to house Dutch soldiers that were mobilized to...

Gonars Concentration Camp

by EUROM | Mar 27, 2017

The Gonars concentration camp was located in the town of Gonars, in the province of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in the northeast of Italy, near the border with modern-day Slovenia. The region has been a hub for much interaction and exchange between the two...

Camp d’internement de Saint-Cyprien

by EUROM | Oct 6, 2016

[Picture: In the camp. 1940 painting by Felix Nussbaum, based on his imprisonment in the Saint-Cyprien camp.] On January 26th, 1939, Barcelona was finally defeated by the Franco’s army, this practically meant the final defeat of the Republican army in the Spanish...