Journal De Rivesaltes 1941-1942 1997 FRE MULTISUB 1080p WEB-DL x264

Year: 1997
Country: Switzerland
Director: Jacqueline Veuve
Cast: Claudia Dieterle, Friedel Bohny-Reiter, Catherine Gaxet, Ernest Marx
IMBD: Link

Language : French
Subtitles : English, French, German, Italian





Journal De Rivesaltes 1941-1942 explores the notion of commitment to combating xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism, issues which are sadly more topical today than ever.


Camp Joffre, named after general Joseph Joffre, commander-in-chief of the French Army during WW1, opened in 1938 and closed in 1970. Its history is horrific. In that first year it changed in the blink of an eye from housing for the troops to housing for “Undesirables”. Soon refugees from the Spanish Civil War, Jews and Gipsies joined the “Undesirables”. So handy for the railway. Destination: Auschwitz, via Drancy.

In 1935, the commune of Rivesaltes, situated on a rail route and 40 km from the Spanish border, was considered a strategic position. Five km from Rivesaltes, the army, who occupied 612 hectares between Rivesaltes and Salses, constructed a military base, to train troops to adapt to warm climates, in case of deployment abroad.

In 1939, at the start of WW2, the camp became a military transit base and in 1940, was used to shelter the thousands of Spanish refugees fleeing the Franco dictatorship, a slightly better alternative to the freezing beaches of Argèlès and Le Barcarès, on which so many of these unfortunate Republicans had been interned as ‘foreign undesirables’.

After the signing of the armistice, France was split into two and the « zone libre » in which the Pyrenees-Orientales was included, came under the administration of the Vichy government, a close ally of Germany.

In January 1941, the Vichy regime opened the ‘Centre d’Hébergement de Rivesaltes’ (Rivesaltes Accommodation Centre) on the camp premises for interning ‘Sinti and Roma’, (Gypsies) political opponents and Jews. It was at this point that the sad and sinister history of the camp Joffre began to unfold.

With a capacity of 8000, it was not long before the camp was overcrowded, families were separated, and conditions deteriorated enormously.

In 1942, under German pressure, the camp became a ‘Centre national de rassemblement des Israélites’ – a ‘sorting centre’ for Jews who were then sent on to the death camps such as Auschwitz, via Drancy. Two thousand five hundred and fifty one Jews are recorded as having been deported from Rivesaltes – four hundred of them were children.

In 1942, when the Germans occupied the ‘zone libre’ they closed the camp, but when the south of France was liberated in 1944, Rivesaltes was reopened until 1948 for collaborators and traitors, and in 1945 housed German soldiers and prisoners of war.

And why stop there? In 1962 it once again became a ghetto. This time for the hundreds of thousands of Algerians or ‘harkis’ who left Algeria at the time of the battle for its independence from France. Many of these families did not leave the camp until its closure in the late sixties.

The camp retained a military presence, despite the fact that much of it is in ruins, until quite recently, being used to detain ‘étrangers en situation irrégulière’ (illegal immigrants etc).

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This report was created by AVInaptic (01-11-2020) on 23-07-2024 00:13:11