Pithiviers internment camp

Pithiviers internment camp was a Nazi transit camp in Pithiviers, France during the Second World War. Children were separated there from their parents; the adults were processed and deported to concentration camps farther away, usually Auschwitz. This was the fate of the novelist Irène Némirovsky.

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Coordinates: 48°10′14″N 2°14′30″E / 48.17056°N 2.24167°E / 48.17056; 2.24167

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