Internment is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. Collins English dictionary adds that the term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply mean imprisonment, it tends to refer to preventive confinement, rather than confinement after having been convicted of some crime. Use of these terms is subject to debate and political sensitivities.
Interned persons may be held at prisons or at facilities known as internment camps. In certain contexts, these may also be known either officially or pejoratively, as concentration camps.
Then, after the 10 July 1940 vote of full powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain and the proclamation of the État français (Vichy regime), these camps were used to intern Jewish people, Gypsies, and various political prisoners (anti-fascists from all countries). Vichy opened up so many camps that it became a full economic sector, to the extent that historian Maurice Rajsfus writes: "The quick opening of new camps created jobs, and the Gendarmerie never ceased to hire during this period." In any case, most of these camps were closed definitively after the liberation of France at the end of World War II. Some were however used during the Algerian War (1954–1962). Several of these were then used to intern harkis (Algerians who had fought on the French side) after the 19 March 1962 Évian Accords. Finally, the Camp de Rivesaltes in the Pyrénées-Orientales and the camp of Bourg-Lastic in the Puy de Dôme were also used to intern Kurdish refugees from Iraq in the 1980s.
During Nazi Germany, a ‘Kapo’ was the name given to Jewish people who were made to supervise other Jewish people in concentration and extermination camps and is used now by Jewish people to call others of the faith a traitor ... He told the Mail ... Germany.
Undated photos of Elliott Konis, who in 1965 received a summons to testify against Nazi war criminals for their roles in committing atrocities at concentration camps ... survivors to concentration camps.
Dr Al-Bursh was then taken to the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev, which whistleblowers and former inmates have likened to a concentration camp.
Congregation Or Ami is hosting an Austerlitz Shabbat Nov. 22-23. The erev Shabbat service on Friday, Nov ... Siegi Isakson, z”l, a concentration camp survivor who lived in Houston, went to London in the late 1960s to bring one of the scrolls to Houston.
... landscape the lawns, work in our restaurants and pay their taxes? Will we notice when families are separated and children are discarded as collateral damage? Will we laugh at the concentration camps?.
Alone. Frightened ...Stephen Miller has already said he’s gleefully going to try to undo the citizenship of naturalized US citizens (presumably not the Norwegians, though) so he can throw them into the concentration camps along with the “illegals”. ... .
It was true 80 years ago when the federal government imprisoned more than 100,000Japanese Americans — in concentration camps! — for no reason other than their ethnicity.
Carl Goerdeler’s parents and grandparents were well-known Hitler opponents in Leipzig, Germany, and were among those taken from concentration camps and held as political hostages in the stately 19th ...
Among the frightening campaign promises/threats issued by our new president was the prospect of mass deportations beginning with a form of concentration camp where the deportees would be assembled.This would be one of the key actions that would... .
Before David and Benji have even arrived in Warsaw for a guided tour of World War II landmarks (their grandmother was a survivor of a concentration camp), we have a firm grasp of their complicated relationship.
By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan ... “Staging grounds,” not to be confused with concentration camps ... Vega ... Homan ... Vega ... People are organizing across the country in advance of this coming wave of raids, roundups, concentration camps and mass deportations ... .
... to honor my own parents, Irma and Izzy Freudenreich, who were Holocaust survivors.” Irma passed away in 2020 at the age of 103, 80 years after her family was first incarcerated in concentration camps.
Will Americans watch behind closed curtains as men in military garb, maybe without identification, hustle their neighbors away? Will we hear of—but never see—the concentration camps, deep in the barren Western deserts, surrounded by razor wire?.
Sun Sentinel
15 Nov 2024
Sun Sentinel
15 Nov 2024