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Gurs is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques ''département'', in southwestern France. Gurs was the site of the Camp Gurs concentration camp. Nothing remains of the camp; after the war a forest was planted on the site where it stood. (...)

Aren is a town and commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques ''département'', in southwestern (...)

Camp Gurs was an internment and refugee camp constructed by the French government in 1939. The camp was originally set up in southwestern France after the fall of Catalonia at the end of the Spanish Civil War to control those who fled Spain out of fear of retaliation from Francisco Franco's regime (...)