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© Lev Kaminsky, Photographer: Kaminsky, Lev, 2023

Memorial Name

Plaque to the Ghost Train Victims

Who is Commemorated?

Victims of the "ghost train" mass deportation

Description

This memorial is a rectangular marble plaque, attached to the wall of the Sephardi Synagogue by four black metal facets. It is inscribed with black letters, telling the story of the "Ghost Train" and its victims.

Inscription 

Les Déportés

du Train Fantôme

 

Partis de Toulouse le 3 Juillet 1944

dans les wagons á bestiaux

du sinistre Train Fantôme,

550 déportés résistants

de toutes orgines furent internés

le 12 Juillet 1944

dans cette Synagogue dévastée et profanée

par l'occupant nazi.

Les 24 femmes du convoi furent incarcérées

á la caserne Boudet

 

Le 31 Juillet 1944, 10 d'entre eux

furent pris en otage et fusillés

au Campe de Souge

 

Le 9 Août 1944,

ils furent de nouveau entassés

dans le Train Fantôme á destination

des camps de Dachau, Mauthausen

et Ravensbrück, avek 155 Résistants

du Sud-Ouest internés au Fort du Hâ.

Ils arrivérent au camp de concentration

de Dachau le 28 Août 1944

aprés deux mois de transport inhumain.

 

Seuls 250 d'entre eux survécurent

á la barbarie nazie

 

L'Amicale des Déportés-Résistants

du Train Fantôme

sourgues (vaucluse)

TranslationThe Deportees of the Ghost Train  / Left Toulouse on July 3, 1944 / in cattle cars / of the sinister Ghost Train, / 550 resistant deportees / of all origins were interned / July 12, 1944 / in this devastated and desecrated Synagogue / by the Nazi occupier. / The 24 women in the convoy were imprisoned / at the Boudet barracks / On July 31, 1944, 10 of them / were taken hostage and shot / at Camp de Souge / On August 9, 1944, / they were crowded again / in the Ghost Train to their destination / from the camps of Dachau, Mauthausen / and Ravensbrück, with 155 Resistants / of the South-West interned at Fort du Hâ. / They arrived at the concentration camp / from Dachau on August 28, 1944 / after two months of inhuman transport. / Only 250 of them survived / the Nazi barbarism / The Association of Deportees-Resistants of the Ghost Train / Sourges (Vaucluse)

Commissioned by

The Association of Deportees-Resistants of the Ghost Train

Name/Title
Plaque to the Ghost Train Victims in the Sephardi Synagogue in Bordeaux | Unknown
Object Detail
(to be reviewed)
Date
2017
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France | Nouvelle-Aquitaine région | Bordeaux
| 8, rue du Grand-Rabbin Joseph-Cohen
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A636926