| Fort de Romainville | |
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| Transit camp | |
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| Coordinates | 48°53′06″N2°25′22″E / 48.885126°N 2.422718°E /48.885126; 2.422718 |
| Location | Les Lilas,Île-de-France Occupied France |
| Built by | Second French Republic |
| Operated by | SS |
| Commandant | Bickenbach |
| Original use | Military fort for the protection of Paris |
| First built | 1844–48 |
| Operational | October 1940 – 19 August 1944 |
| Inmates | French Resistance, French communists |
| Killed | 152 |
| Notable inmates | Pierre Georges,Danielle Casanova,Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier,Hélène Solomon-Langevin,Charlotte Delbo,Eddie Chapman |
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Fort de Romainville, (in English,Fort Romainville) was built inFrance in the 1830s[1] and was used as aNaziconcentration camp inWorld War II.
Fort de Romainville was aNaziprison and transit camp, located in the outskirts ofParis. The Fort was taken in 1940 by the German military and transformed into a prison. From there, resistants and hostages were directed to theNazi concentration camps. People were interned there before being deported toAuschwitz,Ravensbrück,Buchenwald orDachauconcentration camps; the deportees comprised 3,900 women and 3,100 men.
In the Fort itself, 152 persons were executed byfiring squad. A few escaped, such asPierre Georges, alias "Colonel Fabien." From her cell,Danielle Casanova motivated and encouraged her comrades to confront their torturers.[2] From February 1944, the Fort held primarily female prisoners (resistants and hostages), who were jailed, executed or redirected to thecamps. At liberation in August 1944, many abandoned corpses were found in the Fort's yard.
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